Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir - Couverture rigide

Settle, Mary Lee

 
9780393057324: Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393057321 ISBN 13 : 9780393057324
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2007

Synopsis

Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era would have dared to travel. The road will lead to serious, "uncompromised" writing and over twenty books, including her masterwork, The Beulah Quintet. The adventures along the way--from the glamour of New York during the World's Fair, through the terrors of London during the Blitz, to the trials and triumphs of the postwar literary world--will delight, inform, and alarm the reader of this thoroughly modern Canterbury Tale.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mary Lee Settle won the National Book Award for her novel Blood Ties and was the founder of the PEN/Faulkner Prize. She died in 2005.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393057321
ISBN 13 
9780393057324
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Éditeur
Freeman Anne
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