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Stephen Klaidman Sydney and Violet (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Sydney and Violet : A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis
- Publication Name
- Sydney and Violet
- Title
- Sydney and Violet
- Subtitle
- A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0307742113
- EAN
- 9780307742117
- ISBN
- 9780307742117
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 09/06/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 10.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- General, Literary, Europe / General, Historical
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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This long overdue biography of the power couple who nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England offers an intimate look at their dazzling circle. Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Sydney was an admired writer and Violet was a talented musician who was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius; their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable and extensive. Stephen Klaidman tells the story of how the Schiffs, despite their commercial and Jewish origins, won a central place in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of the time. A colorful, highly personal account of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet brings to life a panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and more.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307742113
ISBN-13
9780307742117
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204210742
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sydney and Violet : A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Europe / General, Historical
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10.3 Oz
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"[Klaidman] has done us a service by rescuing Sydney and Violet Schiff from the obscurity to which the passage of the years has consigned them ... [A]nyone interested in the London literary world of the first half of the 20th century will find much to enjoy here, and something to learn also." -- The Wall Street Journal "Klaidman writes about the formidable Violet and fussy Sydney with affection and even, on occasion, a bit of dry wit ... [A] fast-moving, anecdote-rich book ... If you enjoyed Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes or Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany: The Redoubtable Janet Ross , and are wondering what to read next, you might try Stephen Klaidman's Sydney and Violet . [It's] an informative and entertaining look at one of modernism's most ubiquitous, if now half-forgotten, power couples." -- The Washington Post "Klaidman has written a fascinating book, using the Schiffs to reflect light on their more famous friends ... a satisfying read, which sheds a useful and interesting insight on modernist circles ... well-paced and full of the interesting details and anecdotes that remain in the mind ... anecdotal and enjoyable." --The Huffington Post "The world of Arts and Letters is often enriched by the lives of those who did not create lasting work of their own but who helped to make it possible for the legendary figures of their time to do so, and Sydney and Violet Schiff were just such a couple. To read about their adventures is to be transported back to the magical and mythical early years of Modernism and to appreciate the role this incredible pair played in bringing it about. They encouraged their friends in their creative pursuits, as they did T. S. Eliot during the grim years of his first marriage, and tolerated the outrageous behavior of their circle's more difficult members, chief among them Wyndham Lewis. Stephen Klaidman has finally given the Schiffs their just due." --Deirdre Bair, author of Saul Steinberg and Samuel Beckett , winner of the National Book Award "Reading Sydney and Violet is like visiting a newly opened gallery devoted to portraits of the Modernists. Sometimes it is a rogue's gallery, to be sure, but accompanied by the clear-sighted and always informative Stephen Klaidman, we can savor the delicious morsels (gossipy and otherwise), regret the less than ideal or downright bad behavior of the great or merely famous, and rejoice in meeting two fascinating people who lived at the center of the major cultural movements of the early twentieth century." --Mary Gordon, author of The Love of My Youth and Final Payments "Sidney and Violet is a delightful way of discovering the rivalries and excesses, the nastiness and the brilliance of the early-twentieth-century English literary world. For forty years, Sydney and Violet Schiff befriended and encouraged the best artists of their time, and Stephen Klaidman's very entertaining book takes us through their life together with wonderful anecdotes. On one evening in Paris, the Schiffs gathered Proust, Joyce, Stravinsky and Picasso around the same table at the Majestic, all of whom rebuffed any attempt at civil conversation. It is a tribute to the genius of the Schiffs that they survived the ordeal and remained friends with such a raucous group of intellectual luminaries." --Anka Muhlstein, author of Monsieur Proust's Library "Klaidman makes clear the importance of this engaging couple." --The Buffalo News From the Hardcover edition., "Fascinating. . . . A satisfying read, which sheds a useful and interesting insight on modernist circles. . . . Well-paced and full of interesting details and anecdotes." -- The Huffington Post "A fast-moving, anecdote-rich book. . . . If you enjoyed Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes or Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany and are wondering what to read next, you might try Sydney and Violet . . . . Informative and entertaining." -- The Washington Post "[Klaidman] has done us a service by rescuing Sydney and Violet Schiff from the obscurity to which the passage of the years has consigned them. . . . Anyone interested in the London literary world of the first half of the 20th century will find much to enjoy." -- The Wall Street Journal "To read about their adventures is to be transported back to the magical and mythical early years of Modernism and to appreciate the role this incredible pair played in bringing it about. . . . Klaidman has finally given the Schiffs their just due." --Deirdre Bair, National Book Award-winning author of Samuel Beckett "[Readers can] rejoice in meeting two fascinating people who lived at the center of the major cultural movements of the early twentieth century." --Mary Gordon, author of Final Payments " A delightful way of discovering the rivalries and excesses, the nastiness and the brilliance of the early-twentieth-century English literary world. . . . Very entertaining." -- Anka Muhlstein, author of Monsieur Proust's Library "Klaidman makes clear the importance of this engaging couple." --The Buffalo News
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