Agatha Christie: The Biography of Agatha Christie - Rilegato

Laura Thompson

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ISBN 10: 0755314875 ISBN 13: 9780755314874

Casa editrice: Review, 2007

Riassunto

A passionate and accomplished writer, Laura Thompson now turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, thirty years after her death Christie's books still sell over four million copies worldwide a year. Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which she grew up, explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the mysteries still surrounding Christie's life - including her disappearance in 1926. Agatha Christie is a mystery and writing about her is a detection job in itself. But, with access to all of Christie's letters, papers and writing notebooks, as well as interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind her private life as well.

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Recensione:

‘A triumphant success’

(A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail)

‘Highly accomplished’

(Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday)

‘Thompson does a fabulous job of getting inside her head’

(Rachel Cooke, Observer)

‘A superlative and rapturously written biography’

(Roger Lewis, Daily Express )

‘The most definitive biography so far’

(Andrea Mullaney, Scotland on Sunday)

‘The last word on Agatha Christie... A superb piece of biography’

(Charles Osborne, Literary Review)

'An excellent biography'

(Jake Kerridge, Telegraph Review)

'Outstanding'

(Kate Mosse, Observer 2007-11-25)

Descrizione del libro:

With unique access to previously unpublished papers, this is a perceptive and stylish biography of Agatha Christie as a phenomoenon, a writer and a woman

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• Editore: Review
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0755314875
• ISBN 13: 9780755314874
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 416