Summary
Brilliant, readable, lively essays on the problems of reading and writing biography.
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to ‘life-writing’—the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers’ lives in connection with their works; the new and changing ways in which biographies, memoirs, diaries and autobio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844137466 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844137465 |
| Author: | Hermione Lee |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 19mm |
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Fascinating
Elegant, level-headed tidbits of higher journalism and light scholarship * Guardian *
Fascinating * Independent *
In its cleverness, intimacy and verve, Lee’s own work is utterly engaging - perfect material in which to lose yourself between the sheets – Lucasta Miller * Sunday Times *
Enthralling…This is a superb, intriguing volume of literary curios * Scotland on Sunday *
Everything Hermione Lee, who both writes and teaches biography, has written about the states of the biographer’s art in recent years is worth re-reading – Anne Chisholm * Spectator *
A pleasure to read: clever, witty, sceptical and sensitive * Irish Times *
A firework display of mental brilliance – Mark Bostridge * Independent on Sunday *
Grippingly vivid * Financial Times *
Contains many incidental pleasures and fascinating facts – Lynn Barber * Daily Telegraph *
Provocative * Observer *
About The Author
Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee’s previous books include the biographical studies Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather, the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. She is the first woman Goldsmiths’ Professor of English at Oxford University, a Fellow of New College, Oxford, of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to literature.
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