Forty-One False Starts :Essays on Artists and Writers

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Forty-One False Starts

Forty-One False Starts :Essays on Artists and Writers

3.91 (530 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781847088567
ISBN10 1847088562
Number Of Pages 320
Item Weight 226 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Publisher / Reseller Granta Books
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

JANET MALCOLM is widely considered to be America's pre-eminent literary journalist. She is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives, The Journalist and the Murderer, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice [Yale University Press] in 2008. She lives in New York.

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