The Assassin's Cloak by Irene Taylor

The Assassin's Cloak by Irene Taylor

With 170 contributors, a scope that is peerless, international and crosses centuries The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. There are several diary excerpts for every day of the year beginning with Samuel Pepys and along the way we meet cads and charmers, sailors and psychopaths, rock stars and prima ballerinas, gossips, drunks, snobs, lechers and lovers. There is humour and tragedy, history and the humdrum, often recoded on the same day or in the same entry.

Gossipy, funny, perceptive and vicious extractEvery dip-in is a sheer delight. -- Kenneth Baker * * Observer * *
Brilliant ... It's the perfect bedtime book. * * Evening Standard * *
This gives a breath-taking selection from some of the world's greatest diarists throughout the ages ... a treat for browsing or longer sessions. * * Scotland on Sunday * *
A sumptous feast. This inspired anthology of diverse diary entries, selected chiefly for their honesty, is relentlessly thought-provoking. * * The Independent * *

Irene Taylor was born and brought up in Edinburgh. For many years she worked in public libraries. She has a degree in history from Edinburgh University and she now works for the National Trust for Scotland. Alan Taylor is a journalist and Literary Editor for the Sunday Herald. he is a regular contributor to a variety of publications and in an earlier incarnation was a reference librarian

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ISBN 13	9781841951720
ISBN 10	1841951722
Titel	The Assassin's Cloak
Autor	Irene Taylor
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Canongate Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-09-27
Seitenanzahl	704
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