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The Fountain Overflows

The Fountain Overflows

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The Fountain Overflows

by West, Rebecca

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New York: The Viking Press, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full putty cloth, gilt & green titles & decorations, top edge dyed green, [iii], 313 pp. Rear board stained along lower fore-edge. Copyright page indicates a first US edition, but it has that book club look. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). . Good/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Synopsis

Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, the youngest of three daughters of Charles Fairfield, a journalist in London, and Isabel Mackenzie, a talented pianist who supported her family by giving music lessons. Fairfield was a brilliant storyteller who entertained his daughters with tales of wild adventures in America and Australia, but he was moody and unreliable, and in 1901 he left his wife and children to go to Sierra Leone, where he hoped to start a pharmaceutical plant. The plan failed, and he returned to London, though not to his family, dying when Cicily was fourteen. Inspired by such stars of the stage as Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Cicily hoped to become an actress, and in 1910 she enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Art. Soon, however, she abandoned her theatrical ambitions and joined the staff of the feminist journal The Freewoman , for which she began to write regularly under the name of Rebecca West (adopted after playing that character in a performance of Ibsen’s  Rosmersholm ). Among Rebecca West’s protean accomplishments are critical studies of two writers she deeply admired, Henry James and D.H. Lawrence; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon  (1941), a vast work about pre-World War II Yugoslavia that combines history, political analysis, and vivid descriptions of travel;  The Meaning of Treason  (1947); and several novels, beginning with  The Return of the Soldier  (1918) and including  The Fountain Overflows (1956), which is closely modeled on the events of her own childhood. Andrea Barrett is the author of five novels, most recently  The Voyage of the Narwhal , and two collections of short fiction,  Ship Fever , which received the 1996 National Book Award, and Servants of the Map . A MacArthur Fellow, she was also a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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Seller
Twin City Antiquarian Books US (US)
Seller's Inventory #
LIFI00425
Title
The Fountain Overflows
Author
West, Rebecca
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No dj
Publisher
The Viking Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1956
Weight
2.00 lbs
Keywords
Fiction
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction;
Size
21½ X 14½ cm

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