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Adeline

A Novel of Virginia Woolf

by Norah Vincent
Corrie James
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On April 18, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent's Adeline reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out. And haunting every page is Adeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginia's greatest consolation, and her greatest torment.

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    April 7, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781494528065
      • File size: 281478 KB
      • Duration: 09:46:24

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A sensitive narration by Corrie James immerses listeners in the tormented life and ultimate suicide of writer Virginia Woolf. Vincent's richly imagined chronicle weaves a complicated filigree of Woolf's interior monologues and conversations with the people pivotal to her life and her writing process. Virginia was named for her dead sibling, Adeline, but chose never to use the name. However, Adeline's ghostly presence haunts Virginia from childhood through her later life, having profound effects on her relationship with her sister Vanessa, her marriage to Leonard Woolf, and her friendships with T.S. Eliot and Lytton Strachey. James clearly portrays Woolf's intellectual passion, existential ennui, and emotional turmoil in Vincent's grim portrait of a brilliant, deeply troubled writer. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 23, 2015
      It is perhaps not surprising that Vincent (Self-Made Man), whose nonfiction has dealt with issues of gender and mental illness, should choose as the topic of this novel the life and death of Virginia Woolf. Specifically, the novel focuses on a handful of scenes from the last 15 years of Woolf’s life, exploring not only Woolf’s complicated relationship with her own creative process but also the intricate and fraught entanglements of the Bloomsbury Group. Central to Vincent’s imagined version of Woolf’s later years are the consequences of the author’s troubled childhood and its implications for her close relationships, including her sister, Vanessa. Here, much of Woolf’s depression and anxiety is linked to her childhood self—and her given name, Adeline—with whom Woolf has a pivotal imaginary conversation that haunts her to the end. This exchange is skillfully rendered and emotionally insightful, leading Vincent’s novel to its somber conclusion.

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