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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
October 14, 2015 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book coming out this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Contest by Thursday, October 15th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of VANESSA AND HER SISTER by Priya Parmar, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: VANESSA AND HER SISTER by Priya Parmar
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London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of bright, outrageous artistic friends who will grow into legend and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. And at the center of this charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and Virginia, the writer.
Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf’s book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London.
But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa’s constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must decide if it is finally time to protect her own happiness above all else.
The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, VANESSA AND HER SISTER exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
VANESSA AND HER SISTER was a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick when it released in hardcover.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here for the reading group guide.
-Click here to visit Priya Parmar's official website.
-Connect with Priya Parmar on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Click here to enter the contest by Thursday, October 15th at 11:59am ET. |
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