A Bit off the Map and other stories

Angus Wilson

ISBN 10: 0586048960 / ISBN 13: 9780586048962

Published by Granada Publishing Ltd. A Panther Book, Hertfordshire, England, Great Britain, 1982

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Firmly bound with light handling wear including small creases on the corners of some pages, blue pen line across the top and lower closed page edges.

Seller Inventory # 074238

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Bit off the Map and other stories
• Publisher: Granada Publishing Ltd. A Panther Book, Hertfordshire, England, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0586048960
• ISBN 13: 9780586048962
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

173 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

About the Author

One of Britain's most distinguished novelists Sir Angus Wilson was born in 1913. Educated at Westminster and Merton College, Oxford he joined the British Museum as a cataloguer before being called for service in 1941. His literary career began with a collection of short-stories published in 1949. These were followed by other short-story collections, novels and plays.

Co-founder with Malcolm Bradbury of the MA programme in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Wilson was appointed professor in 1967. Chair of many literary panels, including the Booker prize, and campaigner for homosexual equality he was knighted in 1980. He died in 1991.