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"An impressive group of writers" Sunday Telegraph; "A valuable compendium of the biographer's art by some of the leading practitioners" Catholic Herald; "Gently amusing and occasionally perceptive collection of biographers' confessions" Guardian"
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Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their subjects, of shocking new discoveries, and of bitter professional rivalries. Essays in favour of biography, others that describe disenchantment with an attempt to capture another human being in the pages of a book. First published in the autumn of 2004 - to coincide with the appearance of the most important British publishing enterprise of the new century to date, the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - this new in paperback edition of Lives For Sale is full of amusing anecdotes and fascinating experiences retold by some of the masters of the form, including Michael Holroyd, Claire Tomalin, Fiona MacCarthy, Graham Robb, Andrew Roberts, Hermione Lee, Margaret Forster, Jenny Uglow, Antonia Fraser, as well as contributions from the rising generation, and an essay by Beryl Bainbridge on 'Waiting for the Biographer'.
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Brilliant......,
This review is from: Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales (Hardcover)
Mark Bostridge has compiled a dream come true for any lover of Biography and I will treasure these essays that I know I will read again and again.I love reading Biographies and when I first heard of this book I could not wait to get my hands on it. It is joy to read all these Tales of the Lives, by all my favourite biographers, and I enjoyed every single essay..
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Terrific range of experiences and opinions,
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This review is from: Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales (Hardcover)
What a wonderful way to celebrate the new Oxford DNB. Thirty two-essays and interviews with some of the best biographers writing today in Britain. My stand-outs for humour, poignancy, and for telling us how biographers cope with their jobs are: Lyndall Gordon on James's Death Mask, Fiona MacCarthy on controversy surrounding her book on Gill, Claire Harman on Sylvia Townsend-Warner, and the editor's own essay on his Vera Brittain revelations. Fascinating!
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A fascinating glimpse,
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This review is from: Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales (Hardcover)
If you have ever wondered how biographers tackled their subjects, then this is the book for you. Thirty-three biographers, most of them well-known, reveal their different approaches to their subjects. For some, it was plain-sailing, for others hard work. As the blurb says, the book tells of 'the ups and downs ... of shocking discoveries and frustrating dead ends, strange literary hauntings and curses, bitter professional rivalries ...' Several biographers were deeply involved with their book when they discovered that a rival biographer was working on the same subject. One biographer, Frances Wilson, discovered three months before publication that she had a rival whose book even had the same title as hers!I recommend this book for its fascinating glimpses into the arcane world of the professional biographer.
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