Works On Paper by Michael Holroyd
* A brilliant selection of letters, essays and reviews written over the last quarter of a century by our pre-eminent biographer.
His views expressed with humour and elan on figures ranging from Sitwell to Quentin Crisp are a feast for the mind* INDEPENDENT *
Holroyd is an engaging, stimulating commentator who never reduces his academic work to accessible fatuity. He is gently but firmly persuasive of the value of biography. * OBSERVER *
If anyone still doubts that biographers are "proper" writers, rather than mere transcribers of life's rich record, then they should read this book. * NEW STATESMAN *
He remains an eloquent advertisement for the power of biography to animate what would otherwise be forgotten. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Holroyd is an engaging, stimulating commentator who never reduces his academic work to accessible fatuity. He is gently but firmly persuasive of the value of biography. * OBSERVER *
If anyone still doubts that biographers are "proper" writers, rather than mere transcribers of life's rich record, then they should read this book. * NEW STATESMAN *
He remains an eloquent advertisement for the power of biography to animate what would otherwise be forgotten. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Michael Holroyd is the author of numerous biographies including Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, George Bernard Shaw.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349113968 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349113963 |
| Title | Works On Paper |
| Author | Michael Holroyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2003-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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