Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography - Brossura

Glendinning, Victoria

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ISBN 10: 0307277402 ISBN 13: 9780307277404

Casa editrice: Anchor, 2006

Riassunto

A biography of the acclaimed Anglo-Irish novelist follows the formation of her character and the growth of her art from her childhood in a great ancestral manor in Ireland to her discovery of America and international fame. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"Intense and illuminating...a highly readable, compassionate account of a woman as subtly complex and delightfully witty as the novels she wrote." —Chicago Tribune"As a complex and compelling personality, Miss Bowen comes very much to life on these pages...entirely absorbing." —The New York Times

L'autore:

Victoria Glendinning was born in the north of England and read French and Spanish at Oxford. Her first book was A Suppressed Cry, a family memoir about her Quaker great-aunt. She has written biographies of Edith Sitwell (which won the James Tait Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize), Vita Sackville-West (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Rebecca West, Anthony Trollope (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf. She co-edited Mothers and Sons with her son Matthew Glendinning, and has published three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity, and Flight. She reviews books for national newspapers and journals, has been a judge of the W. H. Smith Prize and other literary awards, and chair of the judges of the Booker Prize. From 2000-03 she was president of English PEN. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and was awarded a CBE in 1998.

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• Editore: Anchor
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0307277402
• ISBN 13: 9780307277404
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368