Negative Capability by Michèle Roberts
In this intimate and wryly honest journal Michele Roberts reflects on cities and countryside, loss and love, food, friendships, sisterhood, pleasure and memories, her abiding relationship with France and with literature.‘A wonderful writer: one in possession of immense feeling’
* Rachel Cooke, The Observer *‘A magnificent writer’
* Helen Dunmore, The Guardian *‘Michele Roberts is a writer who has always excelled at embodying the joy of female intellectual and earthly appetites.’
* Deborah Levy *‘Funny, wise and all-embracing’
* Carmen Callil *‘Michèle Roberts has always been a terrific, complex writer with a natural tone, a tone of her own, and Negative Capability is among the best of her books.’
* Andrew O’Hagan *Raw and glittering... Superb.
* The Sunday Times *Roberts writes with wit and honesty.
* The Independent *Bracing and galvanising.
* Financial Times *Brave, naked, defiant and exquisitely written.
* The Spectator *Roberts’ intimate, candid writing is underpinned by a dry humour, wry observations, and a poignant strain of melancholy perfect for our time.
* BookBlast *Bold, serious and life-enhancing.
* BookOxygen *Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and, most recently, the highly-acclaimed Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2013. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud: Stories of Sex and Love.
Half-English and half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913207144 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913207145 |
| Title | Negative Capability |
| Author | Michèle Roberts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Sandstone Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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