Granite and rainbow
Subtitle: the hidden life of Virginia Woolf
By: Mitchell Leaska.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.; Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Description: Mitchell Leaska unearths much new and disturbing material that illuminates both Woolf's life and her work. He recounts the hard realities of her early life - the succession of tragic and untimely deaths, the illnesses, the stretches of madness - as they emerged, infallibly transformed by Woolf's imagination in her iridescent novels, letters, and diaries. Leaska's unprecedented reliance on the Woolf archives leads to fresh revelations about the troubled lives of Virginia's parents.

Plunging beneath the dense lyrical surface of Woolf's narratives, he uncovers the dissonances generated by her parents' relationship and the deeper story of how she sought to create harmony out of such profound divisions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-500) and index.