Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales

by Mark Bostridge

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826475736
• ISBN13: 9780826475732
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"