Description
On the eve of the Second World War, a country estate and its surrounding village—Pointz Hall and the community beyond it—gather for an annual pageant that is both celebration and rehearsal for what is to come. As the Olivers and their neighbors assemble, the novel moves through the mounting of a performance and the shifting attention of an audience, blurring the lines between life and art, memory and the present moment. With Woolf’s signature lyrical precision and experimental, stream-of-consciousness sensibility, the story turns a seemingly local festival into a meditation on time, collective identity, and the fragile ways people make meaning when history is closing in. Through themes of perception, performance, and the uneasy hush before catastrophe, this is a quietly devastating portrait of a world poised to change forever.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2019
192 pages
ISBN: 9780241372500
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Details
First Published
1941
Language
eng
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Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf.