Quicksands A Memoir Author:Sybille Bedford Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, the highly acclaimed Sybille Bedford has narrated-in fiction and nonfiction-what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this memoir, her first new book in over ten years, she provides the moving culmination to an epic personal story that takes readers f... more »rom the Berlin of World War I, to the artists' set on the Cte d'Azur of the 1920s, through lovers, mentors, seducers, and friends, from genteel yet shabby poverty to settled comfort in London's West End. Whether evoking the simple sumptuousness of a home-cooked meal, or tracing the heartrending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers both "a deliciously evoked return to worlds" (John Fowles), and spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives.« less
Beautifully written book of Bedford's young life in Europe during WWI to post WWII. Not exactly stream-of-conscious, but not a straightforward autobiography. It's more episodic, but lush.