Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse

Harvill Press, London, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 342 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket has been protected by it's library plastic cover.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Steeped in music from a very early age, by the time she was seven Violet was already showing a precocious talent. By the age of sixteen she was studying with Oscar Beringer, one of the most notable piano scholars of the day. Violet's extraordinary ear for tone and phrasing, her instinctual interpretation of the music, and her exciting performances made her salon a cult, a magnet to many of the most important artists of her age-Picasso, Diaghileve, and Delius. Violet's musical genius was equalled by her evident physical allure. She had a horror of convention and lived in a scandalous menage a cinq with her husband (the marriage remained unconsumated) and three " superhusbands" . An utterly compelling story, Violet's life was studded with unexpected sub-plots, the most fascinating a double murder which forms the bizarre center of an extraordinary life. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; England; ISBN: 1860462693. ISBN/EAN: 9781860462696. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7839. . 9781860462696