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Outstanding
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The New York Times Book Review Michael Pye
A calm, exact, lovely book.
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Outstanding
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Wall Street Journal Roger Lowenstein
[A] dry and yet astonishing memoir.
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Outstanding
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Washington Post Michael Dirda
Though fragmented in structure and somewhat familiar in its elements... Quicksands is still a deeply ingratiating book, a chance to spend some time with a humane sensibility and to visit a now-vanished world.
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Outstanding
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The Economist
A NEW book by Sybille Bedford... is an unusual joy.
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Outstanding
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The Spectator Hilary Mantel
[Bedford's] polished manner is intact, and so too is her pleasure in the world’s surfaces, the sensuous precision that, combined with tough-mindedness and humour, is the foundation of her style.
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Outstanding
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Daily Telegraph Hilary Spurling
Quicksands confronts dispossession, grief and loss with a rigorous, impersonal, almost surgical precision that is both exhilarating and moving.
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Outstanding
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Los Angeles Times Brenda Wineapple
One of the finest stylists in the English language. Quicksands is about learning to write in the most concrete, meaningful way.
[17 July 2005, pg. R5]
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
This passionate memoir reflects a sharp, incisive interiority and is written in a style that's even more lyrical and engaging than the style that propelled Bedford into the literary world with her first book, Sudden View, in 1953.
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Outstanding
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TLS: The Times Literary Supplement Caroline Moorehead
Quicksands is a generous, celebratory book, tying up many of the loose ends that were left hanging in the novels.
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Favorable
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New York Review Of Books Alan Hollinghurst
Good new material.
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Favorable
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Booklist Allison Block
Bedford goes a bit overboard on details in this otherwise lively account of a literary life. [1 March 2005, p.1131]
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Favorable
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Library Journal Gina Kaiser
[Bedford] moves back and forth in time, accumulating events of the literati she interacts with in Rome, Paris, and London, and in so doing gives a wonderful feel for these locales during the rise of fascism. [1 April 2005, p.93]
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Favorable
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The Observer Andrew Barrow
Gloriously uncondescending and pioneeringly ungrammatical.
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Favorable
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The Guardian Victoria Glendinning
A creative tussle between memory, imagination and desire.
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Favorable
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The Independent Clare Colvin
Remarkably forthcoming.
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Favorable
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Kirkus Reviews
It's a shifting, erratic journey through the century.
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Favorable
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Daily Telegraph Selina Hastings
Quicksands is a remarkable work, vividly evocative and at the same time teasingly elusive.
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