Cora Sandel Peter Owen Modern Classic 3 Books Collection Pack Set Rrp
2989

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Alberta & Jacob Hailed as a masterpiece on its British publication in 1962 this Modern Classic reissue should bring this magnificent novel to a new generation Imaginative & intelligent Alberta is a misfit trapped in a stiflingly provincial town in the far north of Norway whose only affinity is for her extrovert brother Jacob Combining mastery of style & characterization with brilliant descriptive writing this powerful story of a young woman s rebellion is universally regarded as one of the greatest novels to come from Scandinavia Alberta Alone Following Alberta & Jacob & Alberta & Freedom this final volume of the famous semiautobiograpical Alberta trilogy finds Alberta now with a young child in Paris immediately following the First World War While her husband flirts with a painter she falls for a French writer & First World War veteran As her emotional world intensifying she decides to return to Norway & begin life again as an independent creative woman Alberta & Freedom Alberta Selmer escapes from her cold suffocating provincial life in Norway to seek out the summer riches of Paris a city where the bohemians will never die where there is absinthe endless talk of cubism & the petrol engine is replacing the horse on the Champs Elysees However Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century is a huge sea on which Alberta & her freedoms are cast With no connections few work prospects & little money Alberta is forced to become an artists model She poses for an English artist until her limbs ache to keep herself from starvation all the time fearing that news of her occupation might spread to fellow exiles in Montparnasse or worse still back to home Although she begins to write small pieces for newspapers & periodicals Albertas selfesteem is low & her youth & loneliness cause her to become vulnerable to the casual approaches of predatory men Relationships when they happen are neither easy nor happy She has not yet found her talent & her freedoms may stagnate