Important to Me (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
242
Utgivningsdatum
2012-03-01
Förlag
Macmillan Bello
Illustratör/Fotograf
black & white illustrations
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 14 mm
Vikt
381 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
459:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781447215509

Important to Me

av Pamela Hansford Johnson
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-03-01

Slutsåld

This is an unconventional memoir a book of reflections upon the things that have been most important in Pamela Hansford Johnsons life. It is a wide-ranging book. It offers personal reminiscenses; views on literature, music and painting; portraits of remarkable people; opinions on politics and society; and scenes from an active life. Pamela Hansford Johnson writes about her childhood and youth, giving a marvellous portrait of her mother. She brilliantly discusses the writer who is her greatest enthusiasmMarcel Proust. With wit and a sharp eye she describes her travels in the United States and Russia. She gives an account of her close friendship with Dylan Thomas, and she portrays Edith Sitwell. At once personal and reflective, Important To Me is written with immediacy and unassuming grace.
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Pamela Hansford Johnson was born in 1912 and gained recognition with her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935. She wrote 27 novels. Her themes centred on the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and social relations. The fictional genres she used ranged from romantic comedy (Night and Silence, Who Is Here?) and high comedy (The Unspeakable Skipton) to tragedy (The Holiday Friend) and the psychological study of cruelty (An Error of Judgement). Her last novel, A Bonfire, was published in the year of her death, 1981. She was a critic as well as a novelist and wrote books on Thomas Wolfe and Ivy Compton-Burnett; Six Proust Reconstructions (1958) confirmed her reputation as a leading Proustian scholar. She also wrote a play, Corinth House (1954), a work of social criticism arising out of the Moors Trial, On Iniquity (1967), and a book of essays, Important to Me (1974). She received honorary degrees from six universities and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded the C.B.E. in 1975. Pamela Hansford Johnson, who had two children by her first marriage with journalist Gordon Neil Stewart, later married C. P. Snow. Their son Philip was born in 1952.

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