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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963--Fiction.

Huxley, Aldous.

Germany--Fiction.

Germany.

Europe--Fiction.

Europe.

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 350 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Counterpoint paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Counterpoint, 2001.

Summary:

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 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. Jigsaw, wrote the Sunday Times, is "the most unusual, most resonant of all Sybille Bedford's unusual and resonant books".

Notes:

Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1989.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

1582431434

9781582431437

OCLC:

45636997