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Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Matthew Dennison
St. Martin's Press
June 2015
On Sale: June 9, 2015
Featuring: Vita Sackville-West
ISBN: 1250033942
EAN: 9781250033949
Kindle: B00PP63PAG
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Non-Fiction Biography
A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th
century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous
lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied
categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West,
Matthew Dennison traces the triumph and contradictions of
Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a
fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole,
through her affectionate but 'open' marriage to Harold
Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically
pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia
Woolf), and through Vita's literary successes and
disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at
Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world
of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for
costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard
of modern Britain. Dennison is the acclaimed author of many
books including a biography of Queen Victoria. Here, in the first biography to be written of Vita for
thirty years, he reveals the whole story and gets behind
'the beautiful mask' of Vita's public achievements to reveal
an often troubled persona which heroically resisted
compromise on every level. Drawing on wideranging sources
and the extensive letters that sustained her marriage, this
is a compelling story of love, loss and jealousy, of
high-life and low points, of binding affection and illicit
passion - a portrait of an extraordinary, 20th-century life.
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