V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life - Couverture rigide

Treglown, Jeremy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0375508538 ISBN 13 : 9780375508530

Editeur : Random House Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Treglown Jeremy

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'A book so well written, so impeccably researched, filled with so much affection yet never losing its hold on honesty, about a person as interesting as he was lovable: what more could you want?' Diana Athill, Literary Review

V.S. Pritchett - or VSP, as he was universally known - was the finest British short story writer of the twentieth century, and one of its liveliest, most humane critics. Born in 1900 VSP began his working life as a journalist in Paris and Ireland. In Dublin he stumbled into marriage, a relationship movingly uncovered here, and subsequently fell in love with Dorothy Roberts who became his second wife. He combined a busy working life with the demands of home and fatherhood, became a leading contributor to the New Statesman and other periodicals. His friends over the years ranged from Sean O'Casey to Gerald Brenan, Graham Greene, George Orwell and Stephen Spender, and on to the new generation of Paul Theroux and Martin Amis. This dazzling new biography brilliantly analyses the art and power of Pritchett's seemingly artless writings, and draws on a mass of hithero unpublished letters and diaries to bring our 'English Chekhov' to vibrant, pungent life - 'a small man of big appetites and energies', melancholy yet hilarious, and often surprisingly passionate.

'This is one of the best-judged literary biographies of recent years.' Judges' citation, Whitbread Biography Award, 2004

'Perceptive, admiring and affectionate.' Francis King, Oldie

'Wonderfully good.' D.J. Taylor, Tablet

'Sharp-witted, discriminating, intelligently succinct.' John Carey, Sunday Times

Présentation de l'éditeur

V. S. Pritchett - or VSP, as he was universally known - was the finest British short story writer of the twentieth century, and one of its liveliest, most humane critics. In this perceptive new biography Jeremy Treglown uncovers a different VSP, a character as touching as any in his own fiction.

Born in 1900, VSP began his working life as a journalist in Paris and Ireland. In Dublin he stumbled into marriage, a relationship movingly uncovered here, and subsequently fell in love with Dorothy Roberts, 'the marvellous girl' who became his second wife. He combined a busy working life with the demands of home and fatherhood, became a leading contributor to the New Statesman and other periodicals. His friends over the years ranged from Sean O'Casey to Gerald Brenan, Graham Greene, George Orwell and Stephen Spender, and on to the new generation of Paul Theroux and Martin Amis.

This dazzling new biography brilliantly analyses the art and power of Pritchett's seemingly artless writings, and draws on a mass of hitherto unpublished letters and diaries to bring our 'English Chekhov' to vibrant, pungent life - 'a small man of big appetites and energies', melancholy yet hilarious, and often surprisingly passionate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375508538
• ISBN 13: 9780375508530
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 334
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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