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- Paperback: 333 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.96 x 8.00 x 5.29
- Publisher: Harvest Books; ;
(May 1993)
- ISBN: 015670160X
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In 1928,
way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and
way, way before the terrific movie
with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic
masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a
biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as
an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries
and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the
1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's
characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th
century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a
deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both
of lesbian literature and the Western canon.
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