Portrait Of A Marriage
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — no loose pages or broken binding.
One of the most candid and extraordinary accounts of a marriage ever written, Portrait of a Marriage chronicles the unconventional union between diplomat Harold Nicolson and the celebrated writer Vita Sackville-West — two people bound by deep affection, yet each pursuing passionate love affairs with others. Nigel Nicolson, their son, presents this astonishing story by weaving together Vita's own secret memoir — buried for decades and discovered only after her death — with his own reflective and unflinching biographical narrative. The result is a portrait of two brilliant, complicated individuals who redefined the boundaries of love, loyalty, and identity in the rarefied world of Bloomsbury England. Beyond its biographical revelations, the book stands as a landmark document of 20th-century literary and social history, illuminating the tensions between public respectability and private desire in an era of profound cultural change. Nigel Nicolson writes with the rare combination of intimate knowledge and measured objectivity that only a son recounting his parents' lives can bring, lending the narrative both warmth and sorrow. The question that lingers long after the final page is not whether such a marriage could survive its contradictions — but how, and at what cost.
Author: Nigel Nicolson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — no loose pages or broken binding.
One of the most candid and extraordinary accounts of a marriage ever written, Portrait of a Marriage chronicles the unconventional union between diplomat Harold Nicolson and the celebrated writer Vita Sackville-West — two people bound by deep affection, yet each pursuing passionate love affairs with others. Nigel Nicolson, their son, presents this astonishing story by weaving together Vita's own secret memoir — buried for decades and discovered only after her death — with his own reflective and unflinching biographical narrative. The result is a portrait of two brilliant, complicated individuals who redefined the boundaries of love, loyalty, and identity in the rarefied world of Bloomsbury England. Beyond its biographical revelations, the book stands as a landmark document of 20th-century literary and social history, illuminating the tensions between public respectability and private desire in an era of profound cultural change. Nigel Nicolson writes with the rare combination of intimate knowledge and measured objectivity that only a son recounting his parents' lives can bring, lending the narrative both warmth and sorrow. The question that lingers long after the final page is not whether such a marriage could survive its contradictions — but how, and at what cost.