A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The best biography I have read in years Philippe Sands Spectacular Observer A remarkable portrait Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential...Lasīt vairāk
The long-awaited first biography of W. G. Sebald - a TLS Summer ReadIt is a considerable achievement to unpick, so convincingly, mysteries Sebald has taken care to contrive. And to do it with such respect, and indeed gene...Lasīt vairāk
Life Writing: A Writers & Artists Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir.PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and potential pitfalls of the genre.PART...Lasīt vairāk
Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi spent sixty-five of his sixty-seven years in Turin, Italy, where he worked as a chemist by day and wrote at night in a study that had been his childhood bedroom. This biogra...Lasīt vairāk
Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had a long life of great difficulty. So inept was she in its management that her authority as the writer of five beautifully shaped and controlled novels appears mysterious: how could someone so bad at living be so good at writi...Lasīt vairāk
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This book shows how the best writers tell them, and offers advice on how to tell them yourself.Biographers Sally Cline and Carole Angier teach life writing-an area of creative writing that is exploding in popularity-at the world-famous Arvon...Lasīt vairāk
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This biography looks at the life and work of Primo Levi the noted Italian philosopher, writer and scientist. It considers his life in Turin before, during and after World War II, Levi as a European and as a survivor of Auschwitz, and his influence on...Lasīt vairāk
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A biography of the Italian chemist and writer discusses his divided internal life, his experience in Auschwitz, his need to tell the world about the Holocaust, and the international devastation at his apparent suicide. A portrait of the autho...Lasīt vairāk
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This is a biography of Primo Levi, philosopher, writer and scientist. What kind of man was this private, modest author, whose books made of him an icon of human dignity and justice? Did Auschwitz make him a writer at 27 and kill him at 67, or is the...Lasīt vairāk
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Winner of the 1991 Writers Guild Award for non-fiction and shortlisted for the 1991 Whitbread Biography Award, this is a biography of Jean Rhys....Lasīt vairāk
