The novel is divided into nine sections, separated by prose-poems (interludes) which describe the passage of the sun across the sky symbolizing the inevitable course of human life from birth to death.
"The sun had not yet risen." (As I looked East this morning at 6.45 am (from my 10th floor apartment) it rose faster than I could capture it.....
(For more information about Virginia Woolf, go to VWSGB: http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk Cover picture below courtesy of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin Issue No. 30, January 2009)
"ARCH AND ACERBIC, WITH SHOCKERS ALONG THE WAY"
By Adam Nicolson
By the end of this month this new approach to reading the essays of Virginia Woolf should be on the shelves. On January 26, in the London "Evening Standard", Adam Nicolson wrote, in part, "You can get the essays and the Common Reader free online nowadays, but the virtue of this edition is that the editor quotes long and fruitily from Woolf's diary and letters. Alongside the essays, he allows you to see the process by which they were made."
Can't wait to pick up my copy!
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