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HardCover Pub Date: 2002. Pages: 224 in Publisher: Viking Adult With the delectable wit. unforgettable characters and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status on Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. As his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels. Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial. astute. boundlessly energetic-and lionized. As she makes clear. Dickens not only led the action-packed life of a prolific writer. editor. and family man but. balancing the artistic and the commercial in his work. he also consciously sustained his status as one of the first modern cele...

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We are setting an 15 August press date for this title, and are set to have high profile, comprehensive reviews in both the national and regional press. Reviews have already appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, and Sunday Times, with further reviews including The Mail on Sunday and The Spectator. Our first early review is in Waterstones Books Quarterly: "Smiley skillfully portrays Dickens' life as it would have been viewed by his contemporaries, his audience and by the subject himself." "Smiley's engaging and often stimulating attempt to penetrate these mysteries approaches Dickens from her own experience as a working novelist.... Smiley pays handsome tribute to him at the end of her book, "He is the novelist who comes closest of all novelists to delivering on that illusory promise of the novel - to tell everything there is to know about everyone, and to tell it in an incomparably fresh and delightful way." This is probably what Smiley would most like as her own epitaph." Simon Callow, TheGuardian "Smiley is a wholeheated enthusiast of Dickens." Observer "Her ideathat Dickens prefigured the celebrity life of the late twentieth century is persuasive and is borne out both in his letters and in other accounts of his reading tours... She is at her best when she offers her own insights." Claire
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'Some novelists plow the same field novel after novel. Others map the world. No novelist has mapped so much of the world, right at the borderline where the inner world and the outer world meet, as Charles Dickens. He has inexhaustibly delineated states of mind, emotions, symbols, ideas, the rational life, and the irrational life, but also London and Kent and Manchester and America and Italy and France and Scotland and Sussex and Essex and Norfolk. He is the novelist who comes closest of all novelists to delivering on that illusory promise of the novel - to tell everything there is to know about everyone, and to tell it in an incomparably fresh and delightful way.' Jane Smiley

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  • PublisherViking Pr
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0670030775
  • ISBN 13 9780670030774
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages212
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