The Girl from the Fiction Department: Homesick at the New Yorker - Softcover

Spurling, Hilary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582432449 ISBN 13: 9781582432441

Publisher: Black Balloon Publishing LLC DBA Counterpoint, 2004

Synopsis

Sonia Orwell, widow of George Orwell, was blamed for exploiting his name and squandering his fortune after he died. Here, Hilary Spurling shows that she was in fact a heroic woman who devoted much of her life to righting wrongs.

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Review:

"Praising The Girl from the Fiction Department is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to praise first."

About the Author:

Hilary Spurling is the author of numerous biographies, including Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919; Paul Scott: A Life; a two-volume biography of Matisse, The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master (also published in the abridged single-volume Matisse: The Life); and Burying the Bones. She won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize for Ivy When Young, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Matisse the Master, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Burying the Bones. She grew up in Bristol and studied at the University of Oxford. From 1964 to 1970 she was Theatre Critic and Literary Editor of the Spectator, and since then she has been a regular book reviewer for the Observer and the Daily Telegraph. In 2016 she won the Biographers' Club Lifetime Achievement Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Balloon Publishing LLC DBA Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1582432449
• ISBN 13: 9781582432441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208