According To Queeney
$27.34
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2002
Summary
Beryl Bainbridge’s latest novel is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain’s greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life’s major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend, ACCORDING TO QUEENEY reveals one of Britain’s most wonderful characters …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349114477 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349114471 |
| Author: | Beryl Bainbridge, Amanda Craig |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2002 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 147mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
A stellar literary event … written with panache and an enviable economy … the biggest risk of her literary life - Margaret Atwood
This is a small, wise book of small prose miracles … It is a larger miracle in this way: it makes us feel we see Johnson and his friends in unexpected and unfamiliar ways which are nevertheless convincing and authentic. I did not think anyone could do t - Andrew Marr, DAILY TELEGRAPHIt is hard to think of anyone now writing who understands the human heart as Beryl Bainbridge does, or exposes its workings with more tenderness - THE TIMESThis is a triumph, subtle, rich and heartrending…Anything worth reading is of course worth reading twice, and this is worth reading many times. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.
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