Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography - Hardcover

Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316856789 ISBN 13: 9780316856782

Verlag: Little, Brown & Company, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Michael Holroyd opens this volume with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp - to which he adds some adventures of his own. In particular an important and unpublished piece, "The Making of GBS", a story of internecine literary warfare. The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present-day literary politics.

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Michael Holroyd is the author of numerous biographies including Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and George Bernard Shaw. BASIL STREET BLUES (September 1999), his family autobiography, garnered 50per cent more end-of-year critics' choices than any other work of non-fiction that year.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Little, Brown & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0316856789
• ISBN 13: 9780316856782
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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