Orlando

Synopsis

'a fantasy, impossible but delicious. An exuberance of life and wit' the times literary supplementfirst 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 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.