Summary
‘Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall for memory pieces. And informing everything a rich sense of the human comedy and the ways it plays through historical time.
It’s also a reflection on writers who have been shamel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471180125 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471180123 |
| Author: | Simon Schama |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Simon Schama
Sir Simon Schama’s award-winning books, which have been translated into twenty-three languages, include:
- The Embarrassment of Riches
- Citizens
- Landscape and Memory
- Rembrandt’s Eyes
- A History of Britain
- The Power of Art
- Rough Crossings
- The American Future
- The Face of Britain
- The Story of the Jews
His art columns for The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism. His journalism has appeared regularly in The Guardian and the Financial Times, where he is Contributing Editor.
He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy and American politics. He also co-presented the landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations. Most recently, his History of Now series aired on BBC2 in November–December 2022.
Schama lives in New York and is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations is his twentieth book.
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