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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
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ISBN10: 0802141250
ISBN13: 9780802141255
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Apr 30 2004
Pages: 832
Weight: 2.28
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780802141255
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Apr 30 2004
Pages: 832
Weight: 2.28
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time.
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