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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978
ISBN 10: 0151792569ISBN 13: 9780151792566
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. <b>SAMUEL BECKETT</b> is the first biography of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright. A monumental work of scholarship - arguably the most important book about Beckett ever published - SAMUEL BECKETT is also fascinating reading. Beckett's life has been as rich as his writing is spare, and Deirdre Bair tells his story superbly: the upper-middle-class Irish childhood; the early years in Paris and Beckett's complex relationship to Joyce; the psychological anguish of his apprenticeship, poured out by Beckett in more than 300 remarkable, heretofore-unknown letters to a confidant, Thomas McGreevy; Beckett's heroic service with the French Resistance, also unknown till now; "the siege in the room," that extraordinary period after the Second World War during which Beckett created the first masterpieces that would make him world famous; Beckett's increasing involvement with the theatre and his desperate attempts to guard his privacy against the encroachments of celebrity.<br /><br />SAMUEL BECKETT chronicles Beckett's tumultuous relationship with his family, recounts the psychosomatic illnesses that have often kept him from writing, and traces (where they exist) the autobiographical strains in his work. The book tells of his relationships with publishers, actors, directors, and friends. Above all, it portrays Beckett himself, the poet of despair, the angular, enigmatic artist who, in the words of his Nobel Prize citation, "has transmuted the destitution of modern man into his exaltation."<br /><br />When Deirdre Bair began the research for this book, Beckett said he would not authorize it nor would he read it before it was published. To friends he wrote, "I am sure Mrs. Bair is a serious scholar and is out to do a fine book. I will neither help nor hinder her." After literally hundreds of interviews and years of research in Ireland, England, France, Italy, Spain, Northern Ireland, Canada and the United States, after correspondence with people living on every continent, Deirdre Bair has produced a book that is everything a scholar or a reader could hope for: SAMUEL BECKETT is one of the remarkable literary biographies of our time.<br /><br />Deirdre Bair received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a journalist on newspapers and magazines before returning to academic life and taking a M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. She has taught at Trinity College (Connecticut) and Yale University, and teaches now in the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is married, has two children, and lives in Connecticut.<br /><br /><i> (Taken from the inside jacket material of the First Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Edition, 1978.) </i>
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982
ISBN 10: 0153329807ISBN 13: 9780153329807
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993
ISBN 10: 0153021101ISBN 13: 9780153021107
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Masayuki Yabuuchi (illustrator). Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980
ISBN 10: 0151255997ISBN 13: 9780151255993
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: used. An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose.make this a most valuable and pleasurable book" (Publishers Weekly). "Volume three is as witty and intelligent as its predecessors" (Atlantic Monthly). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986
ISBN 10: 0153118016ISBN 13: 9780153118012
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978
ISBN 10: 0151301182ISBN 13: 9780151301188
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Stanislaw Zagorski (illustrator). Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982
ISBN 10: 0151070520ISBN 13: 9780151070527
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980
ISBN 10: 0156210622ISBN 13: 9780156210621
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986
ISBN 10: 0153118121ISBN 13: 9780153118128
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979
ISBN 10: 0153837152ISBN 13: 9780153837159
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Safari Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
ISBN 10: 0151039542ISBN 13: 9780151039548
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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