Vanessa and her sister
Subtitle: a novel
By: Priya Parmar
Edition: First large print edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780804194808
Subjects: Bloomsbury group; Women artists; Sisters; Intellectual life; English Women authors; Fiction
Description: "In 1905, Virginia and Vanessa Stephens and their brothers Thoby and Adrian moved to unfashionable, bohemian Bloomsbury. All in their twenties, orphaned and unmarried, they began holding Thursday night gatherings in their unchaperoned, unconventional drawing room. Most of the young guests in that room would become famous, breaking the old rules and blazing their own new paths. It is from Vanessa's point of view at the center of this eccentric, charmed circle of artists and intellectuals that this novel is told, with unsparing honesty about their friendships, their love affairs, and in particular her own troubled relationship with her complicated, brilliant sister Virginia"--