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The Faber Book of Writers on Writers

The Faber Book of Writers on Writers

Hardback (20 Sep 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

There is a special frisson when great writers meet, and when one - or both of them - records the event, the result can be full of insight, or bitchiness, but is rarely straightforward. This collection of such meetings includes Philip Roth dashing the hopes of a dying Bernard Malamud; Virginia Woolf glimpsing D. H. Lawrence on an Italian railway platform from a passing train; Ben Jonson on Shakespeare; Hazlitt on Coleridge; T. S. Eliot on Joyce; Evelyn Waugh on Graham Greene; Arthur Miller on Saul Bellow; and Martin Amis on Nicholson Baker. As W. H. Auden observed, writers have no small talk when they meet; as shown here, this frequently leads to fireworks.

Book information

ISBN: 9780571146499
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 447g
Height: 242mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 24mm