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Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
Maggie Gee
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What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school and flies to New York to pursue her passion for Woolf, whose manuscripts are held in a private collection. When a bedraggled Virginia Woolf materialises among the bookshelves and is promptly evicted, Angela, stunned, rushes after her on to the streets of Manhattan. Soon Angela is chaperoning her troublesome heroine as the latter tries to grasp the internet and scams bookshops with 'rare signed editions'. Then Virginia insists on flying ... Read more
What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school and flies to New York to pursue her passion for Woolf, whose manuscripts are held in a private collection. When a bedraggled Virginia Woolf materialises among the bookshelves and is promptly evicted, Angela, stunned, rushes after her on to the streets of Manhattan. Soon Angela is chaperoning her troublesome heroine as the latter tries to grasp the internet and scams bookshops with 'rare signed editions'. Then Virginia insists on flying ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Telegram Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846591990
SKU
V9781846591990
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Maggie Gee
Maggie Gee is the author of eleven acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), My Cleaner and My Driver, and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. ... Read more
Reviews for Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
'A witty book ... It's got everything in a novel that I really like' Jacqueline Wilson's Six Best Books, Express 'Audacious, playful and dazzlingly written' The Herald 'This giddily playful novel from Maggie Gee is a cunning what if: what if Virginia Woolf were to suddenly reappear in a library in modern-day Manhattan? - It's a gloriously funny, fleet-footed novel ... Read more