Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826475736 ISBN 13: 9780826475732

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2004

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"wonderfully entertaining" --The Tablet (UK), November 2004 Blurb from reviewer "an entertaining ragbag of very brief and light essays by biographers." --The Spectator (UK) November 2004 Blurb from reviewer "The story of the writing of a biography can be almost as enthralling as the biography itself, viz Adam Sisman's tale of Boswell, who sacrificed his marriage to writing his life of Johnson. Andrew Motision says writing Larkin's life nearly killed him. So I relished Mark Bostridge's late-summer series Lives for Sale: Biographer's Tales." -- The Oldie Blurb from reviewer

Reseña del editor:

Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. Lives for Sale is an anthology of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their subjects, of shocking new discoveries, and of bitter professional rivalries. There are impassioned pieces in favour of biography, and others that describe disenchantment with an attempt to capture another human being in the pages of a book. Published in the autumn of 2004 to coincide with the appearance of the most important British publishing enterprise of the new century to date, the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Lives for Sale is full of amusing anecdotes and fascinating experiences retold by some of the masters of the form, including Michael Holroyd, Fiona MacCarthy, Graham Robb, Andrew Roberts, Hermione Lee, Margaret Forster, Jenny Uglow, Antonia Fraser, as well as contributions from the rising generation, and an essay by Beryl Bainbridge on Waiting for the Biographer.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0826475736
• ISBN 13: 9780826475732
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Bostridge Mark