or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
12 used & new from £5.95
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
The Paris Review Interviews: v. 2
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book

The Paris Review Interviews: v. 2 (Paperback)

by Philip Gourevitch (Editor)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.58 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £4.41 (34%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Usually dispatched within 6 to 9 days.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

10 new from £6.44 1 used from £5.95 1 collectible from £6.99
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Paperback £12.99 £8.57 23 used & new from £4.02

Frequently Bought Together

The Paris Review Interviews: v. 2 + The Paris Review Interviews: v. 3 + The Paris Review Interviews: v. 4
Price For All Three: £27.14

Some of these items are dispatched sooner than the others. Show details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

The Paris Review Interviews: v. 3

The Paris Review Interviews: v. 3

by Philip Gourevitch
£9.60
The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseba (Paris Review)

The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseba (Paris Review)

by Paris Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £11.01
The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III

The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III

by Philip Gourevitch
£8.23
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

by Francine Prose
3.7 out of 5 stars (6)  £5.94
The Paris Review Interviews, IV: 4

The Paris Review Interviews, IV: 4

by Salman Rushdie
£9.32
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (1 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847670334
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847670335
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,954 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
   Excel in your Interview opens new browser window
www.oxbridgeapplications.com  -  'Tell me about a banana...' Expert Interview Preparation Days 
   Reviews - Tests - Ratings opens new browser window
alaTest.com/All_Reviews  -  World's largest database with over 5 Million Expert & User Reviews. 
   BloggingToTheBank3 Review opens new browser window
myreviewproducts.com  -  Is it a Scam? Read This Before You Buy Anything 
  
 

Product Description

Review

"'The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century--and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.' Margaret Atwood 'If you only want to get acquainted with your favourite writer, you could go to a reading or a book-signing. But to really know them, you should read a Paris Review interview.' The Times 'The most remarkable and extensive interviewing project we possess.' New York Times"


Product Description

Volume One received blanket review coverage and was acclaimed by readers and critics alike. Word about "The Paris Review" is spreading more and more widely. Canongate is now the UK distributor of "The Paris Review Magazine". Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison.This is a second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazines. The encounters between "The Paris Review" and the world's leading writers have elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. Entertaining and thought-provoking, it is essential reading for anyone who cares about writers and writing.
See all Product Description
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

The Paris Review Interviews: v. 2
83% buy the item featured on this page:
The Paris Review Interviews: v. 2 4.7 out of 5 stars (3)
£8.58
The Paris Review Interviews: v. 3
7% buy
The Paris Review Interviews: v. 3
£9.60
The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III
4% buy
The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III
£8.23
The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseba (Paris Review)
3% buy
The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseba (Paris Review) 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
£11.01
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

3 Reviews
5 star:
 (2)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Endlessly fascinating and hugely entertaining, 16 Jan 2007
By Leo McMarley (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Paris Review Interviews: v. 1 (Paperback)
I'm relatively new to the Paris Review (which was founded back in 1953) but I am now a complete convert having read this first volume of interviews cover to cover and having started to read the magazine itself.
The Writers at Work interviews have been described as being the DNA of literature and I think this is an apt description. No one who is interested in the creative process of writing or in any of the 16 writers in this diverse collection (from Borges to Didion to Eliot to Bellow to Rebecca West to Bill Wilder to Capote to Vonnegut) could fail to be enthralled by this book. It really does reveal the true art of the interview, a skill that seems to have been pretty much lost if our contemporary magazines and newspapers are anything to go by. These are genuinely in depth and are intimate in a way that is rare but highly revealing. I would urge you to buy this book.
Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Enlightening, 19 Mar 2007
By S. Murphy (Worcester) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: The Paris Review Interviews: v. 1 (Paperback)
Goodness me. I have never had such value for money. This a truly erudite, careful and candid masterpiece of journalism. The absolute standouts are the Robert Gottlieb chapter which is like an autopsy on writing itself. Borges is an impish delight, Hemmingway a prickly macho man-child, Parker weary of her wit (a devil sick of sin indeed)and Vonnegut human and warm. Saul Bellow left me cold, too prim, but page for page this volume is worth every penny. Buy. Buy buy buy!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect, but highly recommended. , 8 May 2007
By Harun Mushod (UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: The Paris Review Interviews: v. 1 (Paperback)
I'm hooked. At its best , this is a fantastic resource for aspiring writers. The book consists of 16 Q and A interviews (well, one of them doesn't strictly speaking follow that format) with authors of fiction (10), poetry (3), non-fiction (1), and screenplays (1) and one editor. The strongest and weakest examples are both from people I had not heard of before. The Rebecca West interview was long, uninformative about the craft and just dull. It should never have been published, let alone collected as one of "the best Paris Review interviews".

The strongest (and the one that moved away from the normal Q and A format) was from editor Robert Gottlieb. It included contributions from authors he had edited, such as LeCarre, Lessing, Morrison and Caro, (as well as an agent and one of his assistant editors during his stint as editor of the New Yorker) to which he added his thoughts about editing. It is fascinating about writing in general, the impact of editors and the sometimes tempestuous relationship between authors and editors.

Other highlights were Truman Capote, Billy Wilder, Kurt Vonnegut and, surprisingly for me given my relative lack of interest in reading or writing poetry, all three poet interviews (T S Elliott, Elizabeth Bishop and Jack Gilbert).

Can't wait for volumes two and three.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject










i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.