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Barbara Comyns
- A Savage Innocence
Engelsk Hardback
Barbara Comyns
- A Savage Innocence
Engelsk Hardback

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The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels that are unique in the English language.

Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist’s model to restoring pianos. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society. While working as a housekeeper in her mid-thirties, Comyns began transforming the bleak episodes of her life into compelling fictions streaked with surrealism and deadpan humour. The Vet’s Daughter (1959), championed by Graham Greene, brought her fame, although her use of the gothic and macabre divided readers and reviewers.

This biography not only excavates Comyns’s life but also reclaims her fiction, providing a timely reassessment of her literary contribution. It sheds new light on a remarkable author who deftly captured the complexities of human life.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
372
ISBN-13:
9781526173744
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1526173743
Udg. Dato:
19 mar 2024
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
Manchester University Press
Oplagsdato:
19 mar 2024
Forfatter(e):
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