V: The V in Valor (Vic and Matt: V Book 1)

The V In Valor has 53 ratings and 10 reviews. Rate this book come from his lover, Matt diLorenzo, and Vic refuses to let the abilities control or change him.
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Matthew Dennison does a good job of depicting Vita and Harold's lives and personalities, as well as those of the many women and men with whom they became romantically involved.


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Sometimes these relationships were quasi-incestuous, with Vita having affairs with women whose husbands were lovers of Harold. He also well depicts Vita's and to a lesser extent Harold's celebrated literary accomplishments. The book is beautifully illustrated and is well researched and annotated.


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Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson were a fascinating couple, and though their private lives were often messy and even sordid, their books and their beautiful Sissinghurst gardens remain as their memorials. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. One person found this helpful. The information was good enough but the writing style seemed fussy and almost old fashioned to me. I wished, as I was reading, that the author had a more disciplined editor; someone who would have reigned in his wordiness. Can't complain about the amount of research that went into the book however. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.

One of the best books I've read about Vita. If you're looking for a well-rounded biography of Vita Sackville-West, this, disappointingly enough, really isn't it. Her literary life -- so central to her own sense of self -- takes a definite back seat to her romantic and sexual adventures and to her emotional attachments to her two homes, Knole -- the family home of the Sackvilles -- and Sissinghurst, which she and her husband, Harold Nicolson, transformed from a near-ruin into a distinctive and charming Tudor-era manor, whose gardens remain a tribute to their efforts and a "must-visit" for afficionados.

To the extent that biographer Matthew Dennison deals with her writings, it is to quote from them to illustrate her bisexuality, her "duality", her cross-dressing adventures, and other aspects of her life, rather than to view them as works in their own right. That may be reasonable enough: So perhaps Dennison's approach to tackling Vita's life makes sense, but reading about a woman lurching from one affair to the next still doesn't make for an especially compelling biography. A Biography , who wrote about Knole and transformed Sissinghurst, would this book be of any interest at all?

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Much of it is a chronicle of emotional turmoil, and of the complicated web of relationships that surrounded Vita throughout her life. Perhaps or so Dennison hypothesizes this was triggered by the knowledge early in life that Vita would lose Knole to a cousin, thanks to the inheritance laws favoring the male line within the Sackvilles; this, he says may have "stimulated a strong possessive streak" that caused her to encourage obsessive love and admiration from both men and women -- only to back away once the focus of her "love" had submitted entirely to her.

That may make an interesting psychological study, but it's less than compelling as a biography, especially when Vita's path crossed with so many notable figures of her era. Dennison touches on her friendship with the Woolfs, and her work with Hogarth Press, but gives us few details of what the process of working with them was like. Dennison has his primary interest: And he pursues that, to the exclusion of much else in Sackville-West's life, even her writing and her gardening. Both are mentioned; her passion for both is described, but Dennison never really delves into what it was that made her significant, even in her era, in either.

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If Vita today is relatively unknown, in the s and s, she outsold Virginia Woolf. What resonated with readers? Dennison deals with that in a perfunctory manner and only a sentence or two -- to me, inexplicable in a biography devoted to someone whose primary identity was as a writer. This is still an interesting and engaging biography that will give a reader who already knows something about Vita Sackville-West some insight beyond her novels.

That said, if you're going to read only one biography of her, I wouldn't make it this one. Sure, it's dated, but it's more comprehensive and even better written, and every bit as well researched. There also are fewer leaps to judgment on the part of the biographer, and fewer sweeping assertions about what Vita "must have" or "undoubtedly" thought or concluded. For me, this was a 3. I did so primarily because of the caliber of the writing; basically, it's good enough NOT to be a 3 star book, if not good enough to normally earn 4 stars from me. Sackville-West, whatever else she was, was a writer of some accomplishment although not to my personal taste and founded and developed an extraordinary garden at Sissinghurst which is still a major tourist attraction almost years later.

But this biographer sees her as totally self-absorbed, totally ruled by her own emotions, dictatorial toward all others, and defined most importantly by her sexual affairs and her self-conscious awareness of her "dual personalities". Lots of people have more than one side to their character. This is not a individually defining trait. Whether she had any intelligence to go along with all this and she did is left by the wayside in this completely one-dimensional treatment. The writing is extremely repetitive, and increases the monotony of the author's fixations on one or two of Sackville-West's qualities as a human being.

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Vic admitted, sinking down in his seat and spreading his legs to allow Matt access to his most intimate spot. But when Matt cupped his balls, Vic froze. Matt's mouth brushed against the side of his lover's face as Vic turned away. With a bark of laughter, Matt stood and leaned back against the kitchen table, his hand still lost in the folds of Vic's robe. She's not exactly on my mind when we're getting it on. Is this about the cat? Because we can still go to the bedroom if you want. Vic shook his head.

Extracting Matt's hand from between his legs, he raised it to his lips and kissed his lover's knuckles. I just picked up on her thoughts as she turned onto the street. Wish List Gift Book. More From Vic and Matt: The V in Valor MM. The V in Vengeance MM. The V in Vigilant MM. The V in Virtue MM.

The V in Vulnerable MM. The V in Valentine's MM. Excerpt After breakfast, Matt cleared away the plates while Vic fought a silent battle of wills with the cat, who stretched out across the open newspaper, making it impossible to turn the page.