Alberta Alone
By Cora Sandel
In Alberta Alone (1939), Alberta, now mistress to Sivert, is living in Paris with their small son. While Sivert is involved in a liaison with a Swedish painter, Alberta falls in…
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In Alberta Alone (1939), Alberta, now mistress to Sivert, is living in Paris with their small son. While Sivert is involved in a liaison with a Swedish painter, Alberta falls in love with Pierre, a writer just returned from the First World War. With subtlety and insight, Cora Sandel depicts the gradual corrosion of a relationship, against the background of the aftermath of the Great War.
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Publication year2023
Pages368
CategoryClassics
Praise
A Masterpiece . . . On all levels it is a pleasure to read.
Observer, UKCora Sandel keeps on the essentials with a sure poise and distance that has deserted the novelist today. There is no raucous insistence, no flurry of words or metaphors . . . but it is all there, the pressures of economics, psychological and social forces that have placed Alberta where she is.
Guardian, UKA remarkably delicate and precise writer.
Punch, UK[This] is a masterpiece... As a writer, Miss Sandel is Maugham's superior. She has not his gift of irony, but her emotional depth is far greater... Miss Sandel is a stylist, a writer of marvelous delicacy...To read it is, in part, to relive the painful experience of growing human.
Saturday Review, USAThis is a magnificent work of introspection; few women could reveal themselves so completely with such a critical eye and with such understanding of human weakness...The trilogy is a moving story, a familiar classic in Norwegian literature, and a prize to be translated for the American public.
Library Journal, USAShe has a place to herself among the finest contemporary writing.
Guardian, UK
