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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9780007240548 ISBN: 0007240546 Label: HarperPress Manufacturer: HarperPress Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: September 01, 2008 Publisher: HarperPress Studio: HarperPress Related Items:
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 Rating: - Beautifully writtenAs a great collector of all things Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson and Sissinghurst, I leapt on this book as it appeared. But did I really need it? Surely I have read everything printed about Sissinghurst, Vita and Harold, and visited the garden twice, what could it give me? Well for a start Adam Nicolson writes with more facility, imagination and poetry than either of his famous grand parents. A poetic grace, so beautifully expressed, that Vita would have killed to have had. Yes this is prose and not poetry, but Nicolson, like Virginia Woolf can make prose sound like poetry. In this book Nicolson re-examines Sissinghurst from its historic beginnings, to its "decline" to a tourist attraction. His dealings with the National Trust are fascinating, and believable. I found touching his writing of his father, Nigel, Harold and Vita's second son. Nigel, as a son of a most unconventional marriage, it is no wonder his world was really quite dysfunctional. I rather think the conservative Vita, Harold and Nigel would rather be alarmed at what most of Adam has written. For this reason the book is fascinating.  Try searching the Internet for "Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History" or Ebay for "Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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