Adeline

Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, Adeline  (2015) by Norah Vincent is a reimagining of the Bloomsbury group and Virginia Woolf’s final years. In 1925, she began writing  To the Lighthouse , an epic piece of prose that instantly became a beloved classic. In 1941, she walked into the River Ouse, never to be heard from again. What happened in between those two moments is a story to be told, one of insight and camaraderie, loneliness and loss—the story of a woman, named Adeline at birth, heading toward an inexorable demise.    Norah Vincent paints an intimate portrait of what might have happened in those last years of Virginia Woolf’s life. From her friendships with the so-called Bloomsbury Group, which included the likes of T. S. Eliot, to her struggles with her husband, Leonard, Vincent explores the intimate conversations, tormented confessions, and internal struggles Woolf may have faced. “Biographical novels too often run to the obvious, but Adeline is something altogether different, a singular feat of the creative imagination in which the reader is taken inside the consciousness of a major artist in a way that is both completely believable and commandingly compelling.” -  Terry Teachout, author of Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington     Norah Vincent was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 20, 1968. She began her career as a journalist writing columns for The Village Voice, Salon and the LA Times. Buy Now from Amazn Buy Now from Bookshop