Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: Bookmarked Contributor(s): Black, Robin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1632461331 ISBN-13: 9781632461339 Publisher: Ig Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2022 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
Dewey: 823.912 |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.2" W x 7.95" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "At fifty-nine, I am now the age Virginia Woolf was when she took that final, heavy-pocketed walk into The River Ouse. I am the age at which she killed herself, and I am not going to kill myself; but I was by no means always sure of that." Considered Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, Mrs. Dallowaytells the story of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high society woman in post World War I England. As she is preoccupied with the last-minute details of dinner party, Clarissa is flooded with remembrances of the past, in the process reexamining the choices she has made, as well as looking toward old age. Written in a stream of consciousness style, Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most important novels in literature. In this deeply personal volume, Robin Black writes about Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, a book she returned to again and again when she began writing at nearly forty and found herself gaining a sense of emotional stability for the first time in her life. For two decades, Mrs. Dalloway has been Black's partner in a crucial, ongoing conversation about writing and about the emotional life. Now, Black takes a deep dive into both the craft of the book, what a writer might learn from its mechanics, and also into the humanity to be found on every page. |