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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

Name: Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 9780907871798

Sybille Bedford

24/06/2005
Eland Publishing Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education par Sybille Bedford

Résumé

This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education – intellectual, emotional and sexual – continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature.