The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental literary powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives we are drawn into a literary journey which stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience.
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"I absolutely love this book!!! It is my solace. It captures the beauty of my favorite thing in the world (the Ocean) with page after page of wonderful photographs. All they need to do is soak the book in Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion and I would feel the sand between my toes." — Brianne (5 out of 5 stars)
"I absolutely love this book!!! It is my solace. It captures the beauty of my favorite thing in the world (the Ocean) with page after page of wonderful photographs. All they need to do is soak the book in Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion and I would feel the sand between my toes."
" Found it difficult when I first read it yonks ago, and this time round I found it plain boring - too much navel gazing for me. "
" This is one of my favorite books in the world. I am pretty sure it changed my life. "
" !!! (I have a more eloquent opinion on this book than just exclamation marks, but those pretty much sum it up.) "
" Impossibly difficult to read yet mesmerizing. "
" Re-read this and am still astonished by it. For my money, Virginia Woolf still knows more about how people think than any other author I've come across. "
" If you like weird, difficult to read, prose poems about death and empire, this book is for you. Brittania rule The Waves. "
" perhaps my favorite book of all time. I can say this is true thus far. "
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel. She was a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. The author of numerous novels, collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was also an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form.
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