Works on Paper : The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

Holroyd, Michael

ISBN 10: 0316856789 / ISBN 13: 9780316856782

Edité par Little, Brown & Company, United Kingdom, 2002

A propos de cet article

First edition, first impression 2002 SIGNED dedication by Michael Holroyd near fine hardback, page edges and page margins lightly browned, in a near fine dust wrapper. No inscription. Not price clipped. 319 pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Works on Paper : The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company, United Kingdom
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0316856789
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780316856782
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Michael Holroyd opens this volume with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp - to which he adds some adventures of his own. In particular an important and unpublished piece, "The Making of GBS", a story of internecine literary warfare. The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present-day literary politics.

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Holroyd is the author of numerous biographies including Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and George Bernard Shaw. BASIL STREET BLUES (September 1999), his family autobiography, garnered 50per cent more end-of-year critics' choices than any other work of non-fiction that year.