Jacob's Room

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From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanderss story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mothers correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and remembrances of those who love him. An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacobs Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments and a paean to the slaughter and loss of the First World War.

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Jacob, of whom people speak, of whom they think, but who is never shown. And yet that denial of presence on the part of the author makes of him one of the most living presences in world literature. * The New Statesman *
She was doing with language something like what Jimi Hendrix does with a guitar. -- Michael Cunningham

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The most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf (18821941) was a novelist, essayist and critic. Her writing established her as one of Modernisms leading exponents, as well as a pioneering feminist. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Mrs Dalloway.