J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin

Drawing on a range of material by and about J.M. Barrie, this is a biography of the novelist, playwright, and author of "Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". It includes material from recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and is reissued to mark the centenary of "Peter Pan".

"MrBirkin writes that he has tried to create ‘a documentary account,’ not an interpretive biography. He offers such a wealth of firsthand information that the book holds up 25 years after it was first published (it was reissued last year) and becomes a rich complement to the film. Beautifully designed, the book reproduces letters and diary entries from Barrie and his circle, as well as dozens of photographs."—Caryn James, New York Times

"His most acute biographer, Andrew Birkin, whose, J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys,  has been granted a timely reissue. [It] digs up some astounding entries from Barrie’s private notebooks. Some are composed in the third person, as jottings toward a possible novel."—Anthony Lane, New Yorker

"A psychological thriller . . . one of the year’s most complex and absorbing biographies."—Gerald Clarke, Time

"A terrible and fascinating story."—Eve Auchincloss, Washington Post

"It’s a brave biographer that takes on James Barrie…because Andrew Birkin’s extraordinary book about Barrie’s relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family, J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys, though more than a quarter-of-a-century old, continues to stick as firmly to Barrie’s identity as the shadow that Wendy sews back onto Peter." —Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday

Andrew Birkin has written many screenplays, including The Name of the Rose with Alain Godard and The Story of Joan of Arc with Luc Besson. He is currently writing the script for Patrick Suskind’s Perfume.

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ISBN 13	9780300098228
ISBN 10	0300098227
Title	J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys
Author	Andrew Birkin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2003-07-11
Number of pages	344
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.