Sunflower

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2010

ISBN-13: 9781453206744

<DIV><B>A beautiful actress of the 1920s faces painful decisions about her lovers and her future</B><B> in Rebecca West&rsquo;s posthumously published semi-autobiographical novel</B><BR /> &#160;<DIV>Star of the stage, Sunflower has everything but the attention she craves from her long-time&mdash;and married&mdash;lover, Lord Essington, a brilliant and intense man occupied with more intellectual thoughts. Eager for a more rewarding experience, Sunflower must decide whether another &ldquo;great man,&rdquo; the Australian Francis Pitt, will offer a more traditional relationship and happiness. Written during West&rsquo;s own psychoanalysis and never finished, <I>Sunflower</I> ponders topics of the power struggle between the sexes, and a woman&rsquo;s freedom to determine her romantic destiny.</DIV><DIV><BR /> Drawn heavily from West&rsquo;s own relationships with H.G. Wells and Lord Beaverbrook, this roman &agrave; clef gives a glimpse of the author&rsquo;s own struggle to find a satisfying relationship.</DIV></DIV>