Samuel Beckett

by Gerry Dukes

Book Overview

Many of the items collected in this volume have never been published, among them the transcription of a 1938 letter from James Joyce to Beckett's brother Frank, assuring that Beckett was recovering under the Joyce family's care after an unprovoked stabbing by a Paris pimp. Photos from many of Beckett's play productions, his childhood home and family in Dublin, and manuscript pages complement an incisive biography by Beckett scholar Gerry Dukes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585672661
• ISBN13: 9781585672660
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.5"