The Girl from The Fiction Department A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

by Hilary Spurling

$50 · Offered by Rare Aviation Books

First edition

London: Hamish Hamilton, 2002. Octavo, maroon hardcover with spine lettering, 194 pp, illustrated in black and white throughout. A near-fine copy in dust-jacket light foxing along top edge of dust-jacket . First edition. The account of Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's second wife, who inspired a long list of artist among which her husband as well as Marguerite Duras and painters such as William Coldstream, Rodrigo Moynihan. Sonia Orwell worked for the magazine

• Binding: Hardcover

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