Bibliograph

All the lives we ever lived, seeking solace in Virginia Woolf, Katharine Smyth

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All the lives we ever lived, seeking solace in Virginia Woolf, Katharine Smyth

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages[299]-302)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All the lives we ever lived

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1082362419

Responsibility statement

Katharine Smyth

Sub title

seeking solace in Virginia Woolf

Summary

Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf's most demanding and rewarding novel--and crafts an elegant reminder of literature's ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author

Target audience

adult

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Creator