Women in Love
D H Lawrence author Howard Jacobson editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Jun '08
Should be back in stock very soon
'Women in Love is a work of genius. It contains characters which are masterpieces of pure creation' New Statesman
The bonds between the couples quickly become intense and passionate but whether this passion is creative or destructive is unclear.In this astonishing novel, widely considered to be D.H.
‘What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed’ Guardian
Women in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two friends, Rupert and Gerald, who live in their hometown. The bonds between the couples quickly become intense and passionate but whether this passion is creative or destructive is unclear.In this astonishing novel, widely considered to be D.H. Lawrence's best work, he explores what it means to be human in an age of conflict and confusion.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON
The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation
What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed * Guardian *
It is a wonderful novel by a writer who created his own narrative voice
The point with Lawrence is never to be afraid of going too far, is always to push, push, push. In the pushing-process, Lawrence writes one of the most truly and thoroughly poetic novels in English
He's an intoxicator... Has there ever been anyone like him for bringing places and people so vividly to life?
An astonishingly avant-garde novel * Guardian *
It's a very brave and outspoken book, which expresses things that we still have trouble expressing today
I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps- festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven * John Bull, 1921 *
Lawrence was the first literary artist to emphasise the huge importance of sex as a means of human fulfillment * The Times *
Its questions about marriage and eroticism, grief and the frightening blankness of nature, have made it one of our century's most popular novels * Financial Times *
ISBN: 9780099512080
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 30mm
Weight: 339g
496 pages