All Passion Spent

 

All Passion Spent
All Passion Spent
by Authors: Vita Sackville West
Released: 10 March, 2002
ISBN: 0786709839
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All Passion Spent > Customer Review #1:
Simply beautiful

This gorgeous novel reflects many of the ideas found in "A Room Of Ones Own" by Virginia Woolf, with whom Vita had a famous affair. After the death of her husband, the Earl of Slane, Lady Slane shocks her staid family by asserting her own will, leaving the house she kept with her husband, and settling into a small house in the countryside. Finally after seventy years, Lady Slane is determined to live as she chooses, with a life full of contemplation, dreams, and memories. She reflects on her lost ambition to be a painter, but knows that the life she lived was not without merit or value. She finds passion in the freedom to choose, and this gift she bequeaths to the one member of her family who understands its importance.

All Passion Spent > Customer Review #2:
Unforgettable classic for women (of any age) who "Get It!"

I meandered my way to this book through Sarah Ban Breathnachs treasure of self-excavation, Simple Abundance. I had read Anne Morrow Lindbergh because of her recommendation too. AML and Charles Lindbergh were good friends with Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Nigel Nicholson. So I finally got around to Vita Sackville-West and this book. It was so moving, wonderful, unforgettable, that I will reread it. I laughed and cried. I will try to find older copies of this to give away to dear friends, old and new. Its one of those books. Im 41 and have sacrificed much for the men and children in my life that I nonetheless love so dearly. This book helped me bring those feelings of ambivalence into focus. It also helped me realize Im relatively young and still have time to live the life Ive dreamed of since I was a little girl. Maybe this "child-bearing years" thing was just a detour.

All Passion Spent > Customer Review #3:
Memorable and touching

This curiously overlooked novel was revived by a Masterpiece Theater production starring Dame Wendy Hiller, which like this novel was superb. The gentle story of an elderly womans retirement while her forceful children squabble over unimportant matters is at once comic and poignant. The author has peppered the tale with curious, memorable characters, among them the eccentric art collector who is allowed to eat in portrait galleries because museums hope he will donate to them when he dies; the benign landlord Bucktrout, who sees Lady Slains desire for peace at home; and the coffin maker who pictures people dead to reveal their true characters. This fine little masterpiece deserves to be read today.

 
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