Sylvia and David by Richard Garnett
These letters record the friendship between two novelists, David Garnett and Sylvia Townsend Warner, which lasted 56 years. They are concerned with the good things in life, such as books and food, and also document the way in which the two writers encouraged and criticized each other's work.
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893-1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes (available from New York Review Books), appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book of- the-Month Club selection. Mr. Fortune's Maggot, her second, followed a year later. The Salutation was the title novella of a 1932 collection. According to Warner's biographer Claire Harman, it was almost certainly begun in the expectation that it would grow into a full-length novel, a sequel, or an extended coda to Mr. Fortune's Maggot. Yet it also stands on its own, and Warner considered it the purest, the least time-serving story I ever wrote. Over the course of her long career, Sylvia Townsend Warner published five more novels, seven books of poetry, a translation of Proust, fourteen volumes of short stories, and a biography of T. H. White. NYRB also publishes Summer Will Show, Warner's novel of the French Revolution of 1848. ADAM MARS-JONES was born in London, where he lives and works. His fiction includes Monopolies of Love (1992) and The Waters of Thirst (1993). He writes about films and books for London newspapers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781856193412 |
| ISBN 10 | 1856193411 |
| Title | Sylvia and David |
| Author | Richard Garnett |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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