num_pages: 370
description: When the history of modern prose in English comes to be written, Mrs. Bedford will have to appear in any list of its most dazzling practitioners.-Bruce Chatwin, Vogue
language: English
title: Quicksands: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Quicksands: A Memoir
genres: Literature, Autobiography, Memoir, Italy, Germany, France, Travel, Biography, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 172
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Belles Lettres
publisher: Counterpoint