Where Did it All Go Right? - Couverture souple

Alvarez, Al

 
9780747558002: Where Did it All Go Right?
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ISBN 10 : 0747558000 ISBN 13 : 9780747558002
Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

Synopsis

Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, and poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. He is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, "The Savage God", and as poetry editor of the "Observer", he has known most of the leading poets of the second half of last century. For a time he was an influential critic and his anthology "The New Poetry" scandalised the literary community. Much of the liveliness of Alvarez's story is inspired by the ambiguous fate of being an English Jew. Although his family had been settled in London for more than two centuries, being Jewish always made them feel like outsiders. He went from Oundle, an English public school, to Oxford, where an academic career beckoned; instead he embarked on life as a freelance writer. Meanwhile he climbed mountains, played poker and wrote books about these pastimes which are now regarded as classics. "Where Did It All Go Right?" is his memorable, irreverent account of that journey.

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À propos de l'auteur

Al Alvarez is the acclaimed writer of POKER also published by Bloomsbury. He lives in London

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0747558000
ISBN 13 
9780747558002
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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