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Author: Michael Holroyd
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Dimensions:
Width: 13.10cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.231kg
ISBN: 9780374226572
ISBN 10: 0374226571
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 14 May 2013
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
Praise for A Book of Secrets<br><br> Written with the kind of elegance, ease, and simplicity possible only from a master. --Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review<br><br> Brilliant . . . Holroyd is an impeccable writer and researcher, a man whose books are packed with intricate detail yet retain a buoyancy. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Written with the kind of elegance, ease, and simplicity possible only from a master. --Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review on A Book of Secrets Brilliant . . . Holroyd is an impeccable writer and researcher, a man whose books are packed with intricate detail yet retain a buoyancy. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times on A Book of Secrets Written with the kind of elegance, ease, and simplicity possible only from a master. Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review on A Book of Secrets Brilliant . . . Holroyd is an impeccable writer and researcher, a man whose books are packed with intricate detail yet retain a buoyancy. Dwight Garner, The New York Times on A Book of Secrets Written with the kind of elegance, ease, and simplicity possible only from a master. -- Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review on A Book of Secrets Brilliant . . . Holroyd is an impeccable writer and researcher, a man whose books are packed with intricate detail yet retain a buoyancy. -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times on A Book of Secrets Praise for A Book of Secrets Written with the kind of elegance, ease, and simplicity possible only from a master. --Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review Brilliant . . . Holroyd is an impeccable writer and researcher, a man whose books are packed with intricate detail yet retain a buoyancy. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Praise for A Book of Secrets Written with the kind of elegance, ease, and simplicity possible only from a master. --Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review Brilliant . . . Holroyd is an impeccable writer and researcher, a man whose books are packed with intricate detail yet retain a buoyancy. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Praise for A Book of Secrets Written with the kind of elegance, ease, and simplicity possible only from a master. --Toni Bentley, The New York Times Book Review Brilliant . . . Holroyd is an impeccable writer and researcher, a man whose books are packed with intricate detail yet retain a buoyancy. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Author Information
Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving; two memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic; and the bestselling A Book of Secrets, which was published in 2011. Knighted for his services to literature, he is the president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature and the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Prize for Literature. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
