Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2019 |
Seiten | 336 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,9 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 247 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0241371961 |
EAN | 9780241371961 |
Bestell-Nr | 24137196EA |
'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.
Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert
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'I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future' Tilda Swinton