Peter Smarts Confessions by Paul Bailey
Reissue to follow up publication of Paul Baileys new novel Kitty and Virgil. Both Peter Smarts Confessions and Gabriels Lament were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.The characters have a true vitality in their grotesqueness, and no book is pointless which reminds us of the infinite variety of human experience
Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard
The mother in Paul Bailey’s novel is awful enough to be able to bat for England for meanness.
Sunday Times
The use of dialogue is especially brilliant and even recalls Henry Green.
Financial Times
Paul Bailey is the author of At the Jerusalem (1967) which won the Somerset Maugham Award,Trespasses (1970),A Distant Likeness (1973), Peter Smart’s Confessions (1977), shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Old Soldiers (1980), Gabriel’s Lament (1986), also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Sugar Cane 1993. He was the first recipient of the E.M. Forster Award and won a George Orwell Prize for his essay ‘The Limitations of Despair’.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007292776 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007292775 |
| Title | Peter Smarts Confessions |
| Author | Paul Bailey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2008-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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