{"product_id":"9781840226812-the-years-between-the-acts","title":"The Years \/ Between the Acts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Years\u003c\/em\u003e (1937), and \u003cem\u003eBetween the Acts\u003c\/em\u003e (1941).\u003cbr\u003eThis volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Years\u003c\/em\u003e (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and \u003cem\u003eBetween the Acts\u003c\/em\u003e (1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweaves comedy, satire and disturbing observation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRewriting the traditional family saga and the pageant, these unsettling novels provide extraordinary critiques of Englishness and English identity while pursuing compelling existentialist and psychological themes such as the nature of time, memory, personal relationships and sexual desire. Their tightly constructed narratives enable the reader to experience the fragmented lives of their characters and the difficulties that they have in communicating with each other and even understanding themselves. Read together, these novels illuminate each other in ways that will engage both the student and the general reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945609637985,"sku":"9781840226812","price":5.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33661540_08fb9595-1b12-4094-8e55-85f56c9ef532.jpg?v=1744317994","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781840226812-the-years-between-the-acts","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}