Portrait of a Marriage Author:Nigel Nicolson "One of the truly fascinating--and civilized--books of this year (1973), and the years to come. Vita Sackville-West's journal of her Sapphic and transvestite passion will live in erotic history as a supreme document, a real-life experience that reads like a novel of the spiritual as well as physical conflicts of androgyny. Vita's son Nigel Nico... more »lson puts the diary of an extraordinary marriage into its proper frame with taste, tact, and sensitivity." Leon Edel (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the biography of Henry James)« less