The Swan In The Evening
On sale
6th June 2002
Price: £8.99
Reviews
A model of selection and compression . . . Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
A model of selection and compression ... combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen
Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes like power relationships within families, translated through the distorted lens of memory-writing that, like Lehmann's, moves the reader deeply
While the title keys the mood here, furthered by a prose style as opalescent as a moonstone, the sub-title really defines this memoir which is 'sub-autobiographical' or interior
