Unbridled Spirits by Stevie Davies

Unbridled Spirits by Stevie Davies

The prudent husbandman, after having taken from his field all the straw that is there, rakes it over with a wooden rake and gets as much again. The wise child, after the lemonade jug is empty, takes the lemons from the bottom of it and squeezes them into a still larger brew. So does the sagacious author, after having sold his material to the magazines and been paid for it, clap it into book-covers and give it another squeeze. But in the present case the author is of a nice conscience and anxious to place responsibility where it is due. He therefore wishes to make all proper acknowledgments to the editors of Vanity Fair, The American Magazine, The Popular Magazine, Life, Puck, The Century, Methuen's Annual, and all others who are in any way implicated in the making of this book.

-- STEPHEN LEACOCK

Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, though she lived in Swansea, Wales, from a week old, and spent a nomadic childhood in Egypt, Scotland, and Germany. After studying at Manchester University, she went on to lecture there, returning to Swansea in 2001. She is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University. Stevie is both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Her novel, Awakening, published by Parthian in 2013, was her twelfth. Stevie has won numerous awards for her fiction, and has been long-listed for the Booker and Orange Prizes. Several of her books have been adapted into radio and screenplays. She writes for The Guardian and The Independent, and is a passionate sea-swimmer, cyclist and walker on the Gower.

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ISBN 13	9780704344891
ISBN 10	0704344890
Title	Unbridled Spirits
Author	Stevie Davies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Women's Press Ltd
Year published	1999-04-01
Number of pages	367
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