Orlando - Penguin Modern Classics Thomas Læssøe a twentieth-century crucifixion on Hampstead

a twentieth-century crucifixion on Hampstead Heath

” fiction by Elin Heron

Dorion Sagan

Co-founder of creative direct action collectives Reclaim the Streets and the Clown Army

Orlando - Penguin Modern Classics Thomas Læssøe a twentieth-century crucifixion on HampsteadA favourite book of Jean Marie Dhur, selected for our 2017 Rewind. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a