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"Praising The Girl from the Fiction Department is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to praise first." —Washington Post Book World
The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend Hilary Spurling, herself an acclaimed biographer, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life.
Beautiful, intelligent, and idealistic, but also, as she grew older, belligerent and intimidating, Sonia was the model for Julia, heroine of Orwell's 1984. Her friends and admirers included W.H. Auden, Lucian Freud, and Frances Bacon. She was Cyril Connolly's indispensable assistant on the influential literary magazine Horizon during the 1940s and in the '60s she co-edited the groundbreaking four-volume collection of Orwell's nonfiction writings. Nonetheless, she has most frequently been depicted as mean and mercenary. Spurling portrays the real Sonia Orwell in all her generous, spirited, ferocious, and self-doubting complexity.
Author Biography: Hilary Spurling is a prize-winning biographer whose books include Ivy: The Life of Ivy Compton Burnett, The Unknown Matisse, and La Grande ThŽrse. She is a regular book reviewer for the Daily Telegraph and the New York Times.
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Steve Johnson
reviewed The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell on September 14, 2010
The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
I would actually give this 0 stars!!
What a poor excuse for a biography! I was interested in reading this to hear about George Orwell 's wife and her relationship with him.
The marriage was short since when Sonia married him he was already dying of tuberculosis -- but the author, who claims to have been a good friend of Sonia Orwell's (and might have known a lot of information) glosses over the marriagee in about half a page.
Similarly, the author points out that she wrote the book to defend Sonia -- who had a reputation for fighting with the Orwell Foundation trustees to get money. However, this part is dealt with in 2 paragraphs -- with little information to back up her statements.
just hope that if you need your biography written that Spurling does not write it!!
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Add The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell, Praising The Girl from the Fiction Department is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to praise first. —Washington Post Book World The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set, The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell, Praising The Girl from the Fiction Department is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to praise first. —Washington Post Book World The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set, The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell to your collection on WonderClub |
