V.S. Pritchett : a working life by Treglown, Jeremy instant download

V.S. Pritchett : a working life by Treglown, Jeremy instant download

xi, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, \"Pritchett combined a busy working life with the demands of home and fatherhood. He wrote tirelessly, and slowly his reputation grew. He became a leading contributor to the New Statesman and other periodicals, and his friends over the years ranged from Sean O'Casey to Gerald Brenan, Graham Greene, George Orwell and Stephen Spender, and on to the new generation of Paul Theroux and Martin Amis. This biography brilliantly analyses the art and the power of Pritchett's seemingly artless writings, and uses hitherto unpublished letters and diaries to bring our 'English Chekhov' to life - 'a small man of big appetites and energies', melancholy yet hilarious, and often surprisingly passionate.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index