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Refresh and try again. But now I know it's a loving portrait and homage to a union of substance and to parents totally devoted to each other and their children.
I frequently wondered what either of these people saw in the other one!
Partly written as Vita's autobiography and partly biography written by her son Nigel, this is a revealing and intriguing look at. After Vita's affair with Violet Trefusis, none of their many affairs threatened to break the family.
i was blown away by how a history could be so perfectly told via letters and journal entries, and while i was fascinated by the story, what really left an impression on me is the lost art of writing letters with pen to paper. And I dont' mean that in the hyperbolic sense, I just mean that it honestly transcends the ordinary.
This was a serendipitous read.
I've read a lot of Ms Buck's work. Her "immoral" choices were explained and explored and, to my own personal satisfaction, they were justified.
And of course they finish their lives at Sissinghurst. November 1st 1998 Portrait of a Marriage is one of the strangest books that I've read in a long time, if not ever.
They were totally devoted to each other to the exclusion of their children. Ruth did everything for William while raising 3 children and running their farm to allow William to lead a life of leisurely painting. One of the other reviewers commented that the son never even read the letters of Vita and Violet.
To see what your friends thought of this book, A lurid tale of lesbian lust and cross-dressing capers amongst the upper crust Edwardians. But there are things that really did not mean much to me, simply because of the different ways we do things now.
Vita wrote in her diary, "One should not to allow oneself the luxury of losing one's head." Story of the courtship and almost 50 years of marriage of William (from a wealthy family, educated, and a promising painter) and Ruth (a simple, uneducated farm girl). Omg one of the best books ever for me.
Otherwise though, lovely writing from both mother and son.
To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Toward the end of ORLANDO, Woolf placed these thoughts in the mind of Vita's personification, Lady Orlando: "She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? Using this diary as a springboard, Nicolson boldly endeavored to unearth and lay bare the facts of his mother's life. Inspired by Vita and a direct portrait of her, it's called by Nicholson "the longest and most charming love-letter in literature...". I was much less engaged with Vita's diary entries, written when she was 28, following the break-up with Trefusis, than I was with Nicholson's tender and understanding remembrance of her. I enjoyed this book. Vita regrets. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
She is able to capture personalities with such deep understanding. I don't know exactly what to say, because this book isn't an apologetic or a novel, it is just the publishing of a diary followed by an explication. So I decided to look at this one written about life in Western culture and might pick up a few more. I will say, however, that this book and Vita Sackville West's explanation of why she felt and did what she felt and did were accessible and identifiable and honeslty beautiful. Welcome back.
A good an. As I read the blurb, I remembered the story: my great-aunt used to tell it to me often, as a cautionary tale on marrying beneath one's station (maybe she was a bit afraid that I would fall for a pretty face without considering caste and pedigree). Well, this is our heroine Vita Sackville-West, VSW fans, fans of ambiguity and awesome women, So I have this friend (yes, really a friend, not me in disguise, promise). Portrait of a Marriage follows William and Ruth through 75 years of their relationship, from their first meeting when they fell in love at first sight, through courtship, marriage, conflicts with in-laws, childbirth, … This book couldn't decide what it wanted to be.
They were totally devoted to each other to the exclusion of their children. That's his story.
For about two years, I was obsessed with Virginia Woolf and her relationship with Vita Sackville-West, and read whatever I could get my hands on about the two women, their marriages, and their other relationships. She has great insight into human relationships and paints a rich picture of the lives of one couple. Harold & Vita’s marriage was a recipe for divorce - it involved two gay people marrying and having countless affairs. I was fascinated to see the names of famous others scattered through the book, including Virginia Woolf, and tempting premises of Vita and Harold's poetry and books. The book is the portrait of a marriage of two productively creative people who remained true to themselves and to the people around them.
Nigel, their son tells us the story via Vita’s diary entries, her autobiography, letters exchanged between the couple and through his own observations.
It was a pleasure to re-read this book. The Book Discussion group met at the LGBT Center in NYC and discussed this book in January 2011.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. An unusual look at a marriage. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. The author proposes a very interesting marriage arrangement that worked perfectly well for them. I enjoyed it. I downloaded it ages ago and have finally gotten around to reading it! In fact, the years they were closest were the years Woolf produced her 3 most magnificent novels.
She answered, "She had her doubts. The manuscript begins with a somewhat awkward account of Vita's early years, the scandalous history of her mother's birth and subsequent adventures in Chancery, her own childhood at Knole, and her engagement and marriage to Harold Nicholson. Her affair with Vita was several years after Violet.
Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage?" Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. Virginia Woolf fits into the book only briefly. It's simultaneously biography and autobiography, and I could never quite work out whether its central subject - Vita Sackville West - definitely wanted all this putting out there into the world or not, least of all by her son. Really delves into characters. Both fell madly in love and got married, shocking his parents for marrying a girl so beneath his education and means, but he does not care. Her characters are not perfect human beings.
So I'm not sure how Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicholson's loving memoir of his parents, Harold Nicholson and Vita Sackville-West, went unread by me for so long. There's a problem loading this menu right now.
Start by marking “Portrait of a Marriage” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Both fell madly in love and got married, shocking his parents for marrying a girl so beneath his education and means, but he does not care. I just loved reading something about infidelity and alternative sexuality that wasn't banal and judgemental. I must've thought Nicholson's book attempted to explain and make excuses for Harold's and Vita's unconventional behavior and marriage. And I have my reasons, good ones, large and Midwestern though they may be. to me an email just doesn't have the same feeling, whether i am the author or re. it was listed on a "suggested reading list" in susan branch's book, a fine romance.
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