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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Cousin Rosamund

Cousin Rosamund

West, Rebecca

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0140101306
ISBN13: 9780140101300
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: May 5 1987
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.01 Depth: 7.67
Language: English
Two young women come of age in a novel unbelievably rich in character, incident, and observation. -- The Boston Globe

Their childhood and adolescence were overshadowed by the Great War. Now, in its lonely aftermath, Rose and Mary Aubrey find themselves deprived of the guiding strength of their cousin Rosamund when she marries a man of dubious morals and intolerable vulgarity. Retreating to an inn on the Thames, they find a haven of security with old friends.

Into this fragile Eden a new, disruptive force is introduced; Rose discovers the power of love, and, confronting her own sexuality, learns to delight in it. With extraordinary fierceness and candor, Rebecca West has written a portrait of sexual awakening, one that allows her characters an uncanny glimpse of our own age.

Comes as close as we are ever likely to get to a self-portrait of the extraordinary woman who created her. -- Sunday Observer (London)

The author's searching, stinging, imaginative intelligence encompasses art and love and justice and simple humanness. -- Kirkus Reviews

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