BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST: Bedford's autobiographical historical fiction novel paints a vivid picture of life and family in 1920s Europe between WW1 and WW2."Her writing is like the conversation of a clever, worldly friend who we wish would come by more often." -The New YorkerSybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in Jigsaw-her fourth and final novel, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize-she did it with particular artistry.
"What I had in mind, " she was later to say, "was to build a novel out of the events and people who had made up, and marked, my early youth .
BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST: Bedford's autobiographical historical fiction novel paints a vivid picture of life and family in 1920s Europe between WW1 and WW2."Her writing is like the conversation of a clever, worldly friend who we wish would come by more often." -The New YorkerSybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in Jigsaw-her fourth and final novel, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize-she did it with particular artistry.
"What I had in mind, " she was later to say, "was to build a novel out of the events and people who had made up, and marked, my early youth .