Samuel Beckett: A Biography - Hardcover

Bair, Deirdre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151792569 ISBN 13: 9780151792566

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978

Synopsis

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 736 pages; Description: xiv, 736 p. , [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989. Authors, Irish --20th century --Biography.

About this title

Review:

'Deirdre Bair has produced what is certain to remain the most thorough record of Samuel Beckett’s life’ -- C.P. Snow

‘Deirdre Bair has managed a scoop which in literary history is like that of Bernstein and Woodward in political history.’ -- Richard Ellmann

‘It is a remarkable achievement’ -- Anthony Burgess

From the Publisher:

Samuel Beckett was a writer of genius and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1969. he died in December 1989. One of the most mysterious and private of authors, he maintained a virtually impenetrable wall of privacy around himself and the details of his life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0151792569
• ISBN 13: 9780151792566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1