Cover of The Thinking Reed

The Thinking Reed

by Rebecca West

431 pages2010Open Road MediaISBN 9781453206829

About this book

A thoughtful romantic novel of love found, lost, rekindled, and redefined Isabelle, a wealthy American widow, arrives in France to restart her life and discovers she has her choice of eligible suitors. Torn between a placid liaison with a southerner and a tortuous affair with a Frenchman, Isabelle's plans suddenly take an unexpected turn that will ultimately lead her to a love that will force her to reconsider the implications of her affluent existence. With her signature wit and wisdom, West presents a captivating ode to marriage's depth and the romance of the bond between husband and wife.

Publication Details

Publisher
Open Road Media
Published
2010
Pages
431
ISBN
9781453206829
Language
en

About Rebecca West

Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for *The Times,* the *New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph* and *The New Republic,* and she was a correspondent for *The Bookman.* Her major works include *Black Lamb and Grey Falcon* (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; *A Train of Powder* (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in *The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason* (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later *The New Meaning of Treason* (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; *The Return of the Soldier* (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, *The Fountain Overflows* (1956), *This Real Night* (published posthumously in 1984), and *Cousin Rosamund* (1985).

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