Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571255849
Published:
03.11.2009
No of pages:
460
The Heart of the Writer
Jack Hodges
The Heart of the Writer
, companion volume to
The Maker of the Omnibus
(also reissued in Faber Finds) is a book of fascinating and revealing information about English writers. Where the first book focused on their creativity and the influences which helped to shape them,
The Heart of the Writer
concentrates on their nature and personality. It offers an extraordinary catalogue of writers' attitudes to parenthood, love and marriage, as well as fame, showing patterns of similarity and contrast, and sometimes unlikely parallels. It also shows the range of ways in which a nation remembers them.
Wonderfully informative and entirely original in concept, and the product of a lifetime of research, this book, like its companion
The Maker of the Omnibus
, is an irresistible treasure-trove.
Tags
Categorised as:
Non-fiction
Sub-categories:
Essays & Prose
Genres & Themes:
Faber Finds;
Writers
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