J.K. ROWLING A Biography

SMITH Sean

ISBN 10: 1854798200 / ISBN 13: 9781854798206

Edité par Michael O'Mara Books, 2001. 9781854798206, 1999

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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered dark blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (lightly rumpled on top edges - otherwise VG). Pp. 224, illus with coloured plates (no inscriptions). N° de réf. du vendeur 152005

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Titre : J.K. ROWLING A Biography

Éditeur : Michael O'Mara Books, 2001. 9781854798206

Date d'édition : 1999

Reliure : Couverture rigide

Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette

Edition : Edition originale

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Synopsis :

She is the creator of probably the most famous - and certainly the best-loved - character in contemporary fiction. She is also the author of her own escape from an existence on the brink of poverty, with no job and few prospects. On the one hand there is J.K. Rowling, who wrote, and continues to write, the Harry Potter novels,a literary phenomenon. O the other, there is Joanne Rowling, a quiet, dreamy, rather shy woman whose brilliance in translating her dreams into prose transformed her own life. JK - The Story of J.K. Rowling details her life from her childhood and schooling in the West Country; the effect upon her of the wasting illness that struck down her mother; her time at Exeter University; her long-term relationship and her career and marriage, which collapsed after thirteen months, leaving her to return to Britain with her baby daughter. The Harry Potter novels are more than fantasy: there is a toughness to the writing, a sense of realism and a questing morality that go beyond mere adventure, magic and the battle between good and evil. How those books came to be written, and the influences that shaped both them and their author, form the core of this inspirational biography.

À propos de l?auteur:

Sean Smith has contacts with a number of J.K. Rowling's friends and former classmates, and much of the book will be based on exclusive interviews with these and others who knew her. A former national newspaper columnist and now a freelance writer, his books include the international bestseller Sophie's Kiss, a biography of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones.