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On a single day in June, 1939, just before England is plunged into World War II, a village pageant becomes an allegory for British history. BETWEEN THE ACTS is Virginia Woolf's last novel, left unrevised at her death in 1941. Told in her characteristic elliptical, lyrical style, the story contains some of her most stinging critiques against the society in which she lived.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[Here] you will find elegy and fury side by side, beauty and the heart of darkness sharing one language."
Jefferson
"It is with curiosity, profound regret, and a cool sort of reverence that one takes up the last work of the sole indisputable genius among contemporary British women-of-letters....As in most of her novels, the cream of 'Between the Acts' lies between the lines--in the haunting overtones. And the best of the show--the part one really cares about--happens between the acts and immediately before the pageant begins and just after it is over. So the play is not really the thing at all. It is merely the focal point, the hub of the wheel, the peg on which to hang the bright ribbons and dark cords of the author's supersensitive perceptions and illuminated knowledge. It is in her imagery, in her felicitous gift for metaphor, for cadence, for exciting association...that her special genius lies."
New York Times Book Review - Hudson Strode (10/05/1941)
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