My Own Story A Biographer's Life

Name: My Own Story
Author: Claire Tomalin

Auteur: Claire Tomalin

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Claire Tomalin Claire Tomalin

Engels
Hardcover
9780241239957
07 september 2017
352 pagina's

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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award. She has also written her own biography, A Life of My Own. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times (London). Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.

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A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life. This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed, to her own marriage to the brilliant young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. When he was killed on assignment as a war correspondent she was left to bring up their four children - and at the same time make her own career. She writes of the intense joys of a fascinating progression as she became one of the most successful literary editors in London before discovering her true vocation as a biographer, alongside overwhelming grief at the loss of a child. Writing with the elan and insight which characterize her biographies, Claire Tomalin sets her own life in a wider cultural and political context, vividly and frankly portraying the social pressures on a woman in the Fifties and Sixties, and showing 'how it was for a European girl growing up in mid-twentieth-century England ... carried along by conflicting desires to have children and a worthwhile working life.'

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 september 2017
Aantal pagina's: 352
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Hoofdauteur: Claire Tomalin
Tweede Auteur: Claire Tomalin
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)

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Verpakking breedte: 144 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 35 mm
Verpakking lengte: 226 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 475 g
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EAN: 9780241239957

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Categorieën: Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Media & Entertainment

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Literatuurwetenschap

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