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Quicksands : a memoir / Sybille Bedford.

by Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006.

Chivers/BBC Audiobooks, 2006, c2005.

Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006.

Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.

398 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

Sybille Bedford takes us on an epic personal journey from World War I Berlin via the writers' and artists' bohemia of the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, to post World War II London, New York, Paris, and Rome. Following no maxim but the need for a place and a space to write, Sybille Bedford's life has been that of the free-spirited, committed artist: precarious, passionate, and frequently impoverished. At the same time it has been a life richly lived: full of incident, impetuousness, danger, fun, friends, lovers, mentors, art, and writing. Whether evoking the simple joys of a slow dinner with friends under the open sky or tracing the heart-rending outline of an intimate betrayal, recalling a madcap twenty-four-hour dash from northern France to Rome, or remembering a languorous summer on Capri, Sybille Bedford offers us a spell-binding reflection on how history imprints itself on private lives.

Autobiographies.

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