The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography

The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography

by Louis Mac Neice (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1996

    $9.15
Synopsis

"The Strings are False" is Louis MacNeice's unfinished autobiography. Written when MacNeice was a young man it was only discovered and published after his death in 1963. Described by Geoffrey Grigson in the "Guardian" as 'the best thing Louis MacNeice ever wrote in prose', "The Strings are False" is being reissued in MacNeice's centenary year with a new preface by Derek Mahon.

$9.15

Save:$0.60 (6%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Feb 1996
ISBN 10: 0571118321
ISBN 13: 9780571118328
Book Overview: The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography by Louis MacNeice is 'masterly, and the best thing Louis MacNeice ever wrote in prose.' (Geoffrey Grigson, the Guardian)

Author Bio
Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907, the son of a Church of Ireland rector, later a bishop. He was educated in England at Sherborne, Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963.