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Jigsaw : an unsentimental education : a biographical novel / by Sybille Bedford

By:

Bedford, Sybille, (, 1911-2006)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House , 1989Edition: 1st American edDescription: 328 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780394493404

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Bildungsromans

DDC classification:

FIC BED

LOC classification:

PR6052.E3112 J54 1989

Awards:

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Summary: Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser's Germany into the wider Europe of the 1920s and the limbo between world wars. The narrator, Billi, tells the story of her apprenticeship to life, and of her many teachers: her father, a pleasure-loving German baron; her brilliant, beautiful, erratic English mother; and later, on the Mediterranean coast of France, the Huxleys, Aldous and Maria.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC BED (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		052963

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Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser's Germany into the wider Europe of the 1920s and the limbo between world wars. The narrator, Billi, tells the story of her apprenticeship to life, and of her many teachers: her father, a pleasure-loving German baron; her brilliant, beautiful, erratic English mother; and later, on the Mediterranean coast of France, the Huxleys, Aldous and Maria.

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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