Orlando: A Biography
Registered by intry of Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on 3/13/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by intry from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Sunday, March 13, 2005
In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon.
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reserved for nina-ivanovna as part of a bookrelay.
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reserved for nina-ivanovna as part of a bookrelay.
Released 18 yrs ago (5/20/2005 UTC) at
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Will be mailed later today!
Will be mailed later today!
Received - thank you!
Thanks for sharing this with me. It is the most playful Virginia Woolf novel I've read, and like all her work, it pushes the limits of what fiction can do in form and style.
Sending to RoryG as part of a reverse wishlist relay.
Sending to RoryG as part of a reverse wishlist relay.
The book arrived today. How funny that it came beck to Finland :)
Reserved for CandyDarling.
Thank you, RoryG!
Journal Entry 8 by CandyDarling at Vuosaaren kirjasto in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Sunday, June 4, 2023
Released 10 mos ago (6/3/2023 UTC) at Vuosaaren kirjasto in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland
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I left the book on the book exchange shelf at Vuosaari library.
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