Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait

Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait
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<div>Taking as her alter-ego Lily Briscoe-the painter in Virginia Woolfâ‚¬s <I>To the Lighthouse</I>-Mary Meigs paints a portrait of herself, her family and her friends in <I>Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait</I>, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. In it, she describes the three major decisions of her life: â€œnot to marry, to be an artistâ‚¬Â and to listen to her â€œown voices.â‚¬Â She speaks of her parents who belonged to â€œa generation before their ownâ‚¬Â and how they instilled in her a sense of guilt, locking her in the prison of her self, a prison constructed â€œwith the material of doubt and failure; of shattered dreams and unhappy loves, jealousy, hate, envy and the deadly sins of lovelessness and indifference,â‚¬Â but she also tells how she escapes from this prison with the knowledge that her inner sun takes its energy â€œfrom love, from creativity.â‚¬Â<br><I>Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait</I> is a book about the exercise of the will, the art of dreaming and the transcendent power of friendship. It is a very wise book written by a woman who waited-and lived-some sixty years before beginning to write.</div>
Country USA
Brand Talonbooks
Manufacturer Talonbooks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber NUSBK20160901-C181940
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780889221956
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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