Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life - Brossura

Motion, Sir Andrew

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ISBN 10: 057117065X ISBN 13: 9780571170654

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1994

Riassunto

'An exemplary biography of its kind - detailed, meticulous and sympathetic.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times

'Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer's life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary 'Life' of him.' Peter Conrad, Observer

'Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion's book could not be bettered.' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

'There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motion's, like Forster's of Dickens, will always have a special place.' John Carey, Sunday Times

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life is an intimate and compelling portrait of Larkin by his literary executor and close friend, former poet laureate Andrew Motion.

L'autore:

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 057117065X
• ISBN 13: 9780571170654
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 624