Elizabeth Bowen: Edith Sitwell: Portrait of a Writer

Elizabeth Bowen: Edith Sitwell: Portrait of a Writer

by VictoriaGlendinning (Author)

Synopsis

A breakthrough novel for one of the most gifted of the current generation of Irish writers.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Sep 1993

ISBN 10: 1857990722
ISBN 13: 9781857990720
Book Overview: * An author with both an Irish and an international following * Winner of the 1994 Rooney prize for Irish Literature * Songdogs received great critical plaudits'McCann comes garlanded with awards. ..and with praise from Edna O'Brien; and I am not suprised. He is the real thing;Allan Maisse Scotsman * Fishing the sloe-Black River has just received a Publishers Weekly starred review: This superlative collection shows an impeccable command of syle and language.

Author Bio
Victoria Glendinning is a freelance writer, well-known for her successful biographies and novels. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Prize for Biography twice, the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. She is also President of English PEN and a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London, but travels widely, particularly to Provence and south-west Ireland.