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

More Pricks Than Kicks

More Pricks Than Kicks

by SamuelBeckett (Author)

  • New

    Paperback 2010

    $10.95
Synopsis

His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsism. More Pricks contains in embryo the centrifugal world of Beckett's men and women. She lifted the lobster clear of the table. It had about thirty seconds to live. Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not.

$10.95

Save:$1.68 (13%)

Quantity

16 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 03 Jun 2010
ISBN 10: 0571244602
ISBN 13: 9780571244607
Book Overview: More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett, in a new edition of the classic story collection, published for the first time by Faber with an introduction by Beckett scholar Cassandra Nelson.

Author Bio
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were largely written in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett's work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989.