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Title: Sunflower
Author: Rebecca West
Narrator: Lily Dorment
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-28-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Summary:
A beautiful actress of the 1920s faces painful decisions about her lovers and her future Star of the stage, Sunflower has everything but the attention she craves from her long-timeand marriedlover, Lord Essington, a brilliant and intense man occupied with more intellectual thoughts. Eager for a more rewarding experience, Sunflower must decide whether another great man, the Australian Francis Pitt, will offer a more traditional relationship and happiness.
Written during Wests own psychoanalysis and never finished, Sunflower ponders topics of the power struggle between the sexes, and a womans freedom to determine her romantic destiny. Drawn heavily from Wests own relationships with H.G. Wells and Lord Beaverbrook, this roman à clef gives a glimpse of the authors own struggle to find a satisfying relationship.
Dame Rebecca West, DBE (1892 1983) was an author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific author in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She met H.G. Wells in 1913, after her provocatively damning review of his novel Marriage prompted him to invite her to lunch. They fell in love, though Wells was married at the time, and their affair lasted ten years producing a son. In 1947 Time magazine called West, indisputably the worlds number one woman writer and in 1954 Kenneth Tynan described her as, the best journalist alive. She was made CBE in 1949, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to British letters.
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