Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller - Softcover

Thurman, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312902026 ISBN 13: 9780312902025

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1985

Synopsis

The first comprehensive biography of Dinesen provides a definitive portrait of the life, literary career, and art of the eminent woman writer

About this title

Product Description:

Biography of the courageous and remarkable woman who wrote - and lived - Out of Africa

Review:

"This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live."--Margaret Drabble, " The New York Times Book Review "
"Splendid, inestimably valuable . . . I cannot imagine that it will be supplanted. Right now it is the essential book on Isak Dinesen."--"Chicago Tribune Book World"
"Absorbing biography . . . This is a gothic tale worthy of the author of "Seven Gothic Tales.""--Victoria Glendinning, " The Washington Post Book World"

This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live. "Margaret Drabble, The New York Times Book Review"

Splendid, inestimably valuable . . . I cannot imagine that it will be supplanted. Right now it is the essential book on Isak Dinesen. "Chicago Tribune Book World"

Absorbing biography . . . This is a gothic tale worthy of the author of "Seven Gothic Tales." "Victoria Glendinning, The Washington Post Book World""

"This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live." --Margaret Drabble, The New York Times Book Review

"Splendid, inestimably valuable . . . I cannot imagine that it will be supplanted. Right now it is the essential book on Isak Dinesen." --Chicago Tribune Book World

"Absorbing biography . . . This is a gothic tale worthy of the author of Seven Gothic Tales." --Victoria Glendinning, The Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0312902026
• ISBN 13: 9780312902025
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback