{"product_id":"favourite-of-the-gods-vmc","title":"Favourite Of The Gods (VMC)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Vibrant with an awareness of people and their manners and the countries that shape them.\"-Sylvia Brownrigg.Henry James's theme of the New World (naïve, upright, puritanical) confronting the Old (steeped in sophisticated and unscrupulous charm) is here explored by a novelist who has witnessed two world wars. Her protagonist is Constanza, a beautiful Italian-American pagan born to privilege and happiness-a seeming \"favourite of the gods.\" But in the years of her maturity she becomes aware of what she lacks-a purpose and a part. Who am I, she asks, and what is it I can do? \"This,\" writes Bedford, \"is not a poor little rich girl's plaint. It is the quest that lurks within every human creature fortunate to lift its head above the daily grind.\"\"Bedford's genius is for writing about people. [Her] excellence is immortal, her career one of great distinction in literature.\"-Peter Levi.Author Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. \"Every reader knows her name,\" wrote Jan Morris, \"but few, I suspect, realize the range of her gifts-novelist, biographer, travel writer, analyst of the law, celebrant of food, and mistress of an altogether inimitable prose.\" A vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature, Mrs. Bedford lives in London and is currently at work on a memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Virago Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780860683872\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bedford, Sybille","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £9.89","offer_id":47962373062833,"sku":"SB-0860683877-C3","price":9.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0860683877.jpg?v=1790136982","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/favourite-of-the-gods-vmc","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}