Agatha Christie: An English Mystery - Brossura

Thompson, Laura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755314883 ISBN 13: 9780755314881

Casa editrice: Headline Book Pub Ltd, 2008

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. Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which Christie 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. For the first time, Christie’s six Mary Westmacott romance novels?written under a pseudonym and highly revelatory about her hidden inner life?are fully studied in a biography. 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 Christies 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... superb' (Charles Osborne, Literary Review)

'An excellent biography' (Jake Kerridge, Telegraph Review)

'Outstanding' (Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth)

'Laura Thompson brings Christie's life, thoughts and creative identity to life in fascinating and painstaking detail.' (Sophie Hannah, The Week)

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With unique access to previously unpublished papers, this is a perceptive and stylish biography of Agatha Christie as a phenomoenon, a writer and a woman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: Headline Book Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755314883
• ISBN 13: 9780755314881
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 534