A Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man - Rilegato

Heller, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 0743209079 ISBN 13: 9780743209076

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2000

Riassunto

Novelist Eugene Pota is struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first novel has been scrutinized - and found wanting?

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Recensione:

'A well-crafted tale told with a wry smile...connoisseurs of gallows humour will recognise a master of the genre' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'An honest, intimate appraisal of a writer in the final chapter of his life...a fitting tribute to a fine author' WHAT'S ON IN LONDON
'Funny, elegant and reflective, energetically leaping the sad end feared by Pota' TIME OUT
'A posthumous piece of caustic self-parody [and] one last hurrah from a writer who knows his place in the authorial Hall of Fame was never in doubt' OBSERVER
'As narcissistically and teasingly self-referential as any by Philip Roth..full of sprightly jokes and arresting aphorisms' SPECTATOR
'Elegiac yet oddly joyful' THE SCOTSMAN
'Funny, poignant, wise and written with effortless elegance...There could be no finer addition to Heller's legacy' DAILY MAIL

L'autore:

Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. He began his career with short stories but won immediate acclaim with CATCH-22 in 1961. He went on to write SOMETHING HAPPENED, GOOD AS GOLD, GOD KNOWS, PICTURE THIS, CLOSING TIME (the sequel to CATCH-22) and PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN. Heller died in December 1999.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0743209079
• ISBN 13: 9780743209076
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288