All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
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New York : Crown, [2019].
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First edition.
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308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : Crown, [2019].
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First edition.
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A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own livesand see clearly the people we love most. Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolfs modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his deatha calamity that claimed her favorite personshe returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyths story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolfs Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolfs most demanding and rewarding noveland crafts an elegant reminder of literatures ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Smyth, K. (2019). All the lives we ever lived: seeking solace in Virginia Woolf (First edition.). Crown.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smyth, Katharine. 2019. All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf. Crown.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smyth, Katharine. All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf Crown, 2019.

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Smyth, Katharine. All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf First edition., Crown, 2019.

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