Stevie Smith

Novel On Yellow Paper

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first novel from Stevie Smith, one of the country's favourite poets, was a runaway bestseller on first publication in 1936. It is as original now as it was then.

Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 1980
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 126mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 171g
• ISBN-13: 9780860681465
• ISBN-10: 0860681467
• Artikelnr.: 22199329

Autorenporträt

Stevie Smith (1902-71) was born Florence Margaret in 1902. She lived in Palmers Green, London, and for much of her life worked, until retirement, as a secretary for the magazine publishers Sir George Newnes and Sir Neville Pearson. When she tried to publish a volume of poems, she was told to 'go away and write a novel'. Novel on Yellow Paper was the result, and it turned her into an instant celebrity. Two further novels (The Holiday and Over the Frontier) followed, but it is her poetry that has secured her legacy. In 1966 she received a Cholmondeley Award and in 1969 was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Rezensionen

A more individual talent than Stevie Smith's you don't get. An artist of utmost sophistication... Her pre-war Novel on Yellow Paper is an unforgettable work that has nevertheless needed to be rediscovered several times since the day it was first greeted, correctly, as a masterpiece - Clive James, the New Yorker