Visit to Don Octavio - Softcover

Bedford, Sybille

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ISBN 10: 0525482083 ISBN 13: 9780525482086

Publisher: Plume, 1986

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This affectionate study of the Mexican temper is ''one of the most charming travel books ever written.'' - The Atlantic Monthly Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. ''I had a great longing to move,'' she said, ''to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible.'' And so she set out for Mexico - and, incidentally, to write what Bruce Chatwin called the best travel book of the twentieth century, ''a book of marvels, to be read again and again and again.''

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About the Author:

Sybille Bedford was born in Germany in 1911 and currently lives in London. She is perhaps best known as a novelist (Jigsaw was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989), but has also written extensively on the law, and wrote the authorised biography of her friend and mentor, Aldous Huxley, which Stephen Spender described as "one of the masterpieces of biography".

Review:

"An absolutely first-class writer at the top of her powers" Mark Amory

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