Ivy Compton-Burnett

by Barbara Hardy

Book Overview

The first fully detailed and critically contextualised study of the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more accessible and less theoretical, a modernist unawares. She makes readers think and her terse cool witty style reminds us that the novel is an art. To read most living writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147440135X
• ISBN13: 9781474401357
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"