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Just before she died, the Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane, best remembered for her Man Booker shortlisted novel, Good Behaviour, a brilliantly sharp novel about a mother-daughter relationship, suggested her eldest daughter might write about her. 'Make it as much like a novel as possible'.
An arrestingly graceful, truthful and compassionate portrait of a relationship with a mother who was both lethal and loving' Miranda Seymour, TLS
'A vivid and sensitive portrait of Anglo-Irish society . . . finely attuned to the complexities of her mother's character, and captures the mix of "courage, glamour and fantasy" that sustained her class.' Selina Guinness, Irish Times
'Phipps, in recounting her rackety mother's huntin' dancin' drinkin' life, the sparkle of her early novels and the darkness of her late ... is forgiving and acute' Claudia FitzHerbert, Sunday Telegraph
'Sally Phipps light-footedly brings Molly Keane back to life, and makes one grateful for the illusion of having met her' Kate Kellaway, Observer
'The novelist's daughter, and herself a born writer... If you are to read only one biography this year, make it Sally Phipps's ... this is memoir as work of art' Thomas McCarthy, Irish Examiner
Just before she died, the Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane, best remembered for her Man Booker shortlisted novel, Good Behaviour, a brilliantly sharp novel about a mother-daughter relationship, suggested her eldest daughter might write about her. 'Make it as much like a novel as possible'.
An arrestingly graceful, truthful and compassionate portrait of a relationship with a mother who was both lethal and loving' Miranda Seymour, TLS
'A vivid and sensitive portrait of Anglo-Irish society . . . finely attuned to the complexities of her mother's character, and captures the mix of "courage, glamour and fantasy" that sustained her class.' Selina Guinness, Irish Times
'Phipps, in recounting her rackety mother's huntin' dancin' drinkin' life, the sparkle of her early novels and the darkness of her late ... is forgiving and acute' Claudia FitzHerbert, Sunday Telegraph
'Sally Phipps light-footedly brings Molly Keane back to life, and makes one grateful for the illusion of having met her' Kate Kellaway, Observer
'The novelist's daughter, and herself a born writer... If you are to read only one biography this year, make it Sally Phipps's ... this is memoir as work of art' Thomas McCarthy, Irish Examiner
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780349007540 |
| ISBN-10: | 0349007543 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Phipps, Sally |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 199 x 128 x 24 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sally Phipps |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.01.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,301 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780349007540 |
| ISBN-10: | 0349007543 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Phipps, Sally |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 199 x 128 x 24 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sally Phipps |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.01.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,301 kg |
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