The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell (平装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Biographies & Memoirs(传记与自传),
品牌: Hilary Spurling
基本信息出版社:Penguin (2003年6月5日)平装:208页正文语种:英语ISBN:0141008172条形码:9780141008172产品尺寸及重量:19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm ; 159 gASIN:0141008172
商品描述内容简介'Should be compulsory reading' - "The Times". George Orwell's second wife was portrayed by many of her husband's biographers as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of his legacy. But the truth about Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in nineteen eighty-four - was altogether different. Beautiful, intelligent and fiercely idealistic, she lived at the heart of London's literary and artistic scene before her marriage to Orwell changed her life for ever. Burdened with the almost impossible task of protecting Orwell's estate, Sonia's loyalty to her late husband brought her nothing but poverty and despair.媒体推荐'Should be compulsory reading' The Times