Virginia Woolf - Lyndall Gordon

This
prize-winning
biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life
behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life
rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position'. Instead of the doom-and-death
often imposed on women of genius, here is
the robust walker
and seeker for what was fertile in her intimacies, in women's nature, and in resistance to power. This edition
brings out her ideas for biography itself: to fall on a life 'like a roll of heavy waters... laying bare the pebbles on the shore of the soul'.