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All passion spent / Vita Sackville-West.

Title

All passion spent / Vita Sackville-West.

Author

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962

Publication

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PR6037.A35 A8 2017	Off-site

Description

169 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring's utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions--who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others' expectations"--
"Classic novel by English writer Vita Sackville-West about an elderly upper-class woman who loses her husband and rediscovers herself"--

Series Statement

Vintage classics

Uniform Title

Vintage classics

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

ISBN

LCCN

^^2017011672

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library