Life and work
writers, readers, and the conversations between them
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Word Count
77,000 words, Guess
Page Count
308 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelifeworkwritersr0000park
- ISBN-100300215363
- ISBN-139780300215366
- AmazonB01G5SM2VU
- Library of Congress Control Number2015951353
and 5 more
- OCLC Control Number926820811
- Better World BooksT2-CNB-283
- Better World Books9780300215366
- Better World Books792-BAA-830
- Open LibraryOL27212264M
Classifications
- DDC808.3
- DDC809.3
- LCCPN3331 .P35 2016
and 1 more
- LCCPN145
Description
Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives. In a series of provocative, incisive, and unflinching essays written over the past decade and collected for the first time here, he reveals how style and content in a novel reflect a whole pattern of communication and positioning in the author's ordinary and daily behaviour. We see how life and work are deeply enmeshed in the work of writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Philip Roth, Julian Barnes, Peter Stamm, and Geoff Dyer, among others.
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