About this title: In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot--which Woolf claimed finally "laid to rest" her conflicted feelings about her parents--begins in St. Ives, where Woolf's family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a child. ("The sea is to be heard all through it," she wrote in her diary.) It then follows Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their children, and a small cast of characters over the course of many years as their lives converge, change, and shatter. The novel is ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780156907385ISBN:0156907380
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. tight good clean readable copy some wear to cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780156907392ISBN:0156907399
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover shows wear at edges and corners, only a dozen pages have some underlining and/or brckets in margin. Foreword by Eudora Welty. read more
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This one's only got 4 stars because it opened my mind to a different kind of writing - I didn't enjoy it much. And I don't mean enjoy in the vapid sense of the word; I didn't think the book offered much for the taking, other than a very unique writing perspective."
"My only experience with Woolf, this is still my favorite novel, or at least among the top few. I read it again last year after more than 10 yrs, when I had read it repeatedly, and now, especially after 4+ volumes of Proust's "In search of lost time", and dozens of other novels and novellas, I finds Woolf's sentence flow uncomfortable, really I thought of a train or bus with a new driver that doesn't have the stop and go rhythm down yet. I was surprised, I kept thinking I just need to get used to it again, but I read it in one sitting, I had plenty of time to get used to it.
Even with this inconvenience, which is maybe just my taste, or the way my verbal mind as adapted, it's still the best. I've never seen an author, not even Proust, handle characters' thoughts and feelings that well. The theme of time in this story, and how it works on people, places, and objects, is extraordinary. So was the artist character and her problems ; so too the need and inability to hold a moment and stop it ; just about everything that is said, every character-interaction, every thought, every silence, posture, everything is on the money, there's hardly a sentence that doesn't pull its weight.
Although I often read what 'comes my way', I'm not sure in this case why I haven't yet read anything else by Woolf."
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