As It Was in the Beginning Format:Paperback Silence becomes Ruby’s refuge

Silence becomes Ruby’s refuge

Grungy and queer

street-life and regret as much as a satirical novel of ideas

Dedalus Press reissues the ten introductory essays from that book

As It Was in the Beginning Format:Paperback Silence becomes Ruby’s refugeOne of the most audacious of all modernist novels. Millicent, Lady Cheseborough fifty, widowed, rejected by her much younger lover lies dying in a nursing home, the victim of a stroke. As she nears death, her thoughts go back through her life in a desperate attempt to find its meaning. With great stylistic daring, Gertrude Trevelyan recreates the stream of consciousness in its most realistic and moving form. As It Was in the Beginning is perhaps