Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means

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Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means

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Author :   Brendan King
Publisher :   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published :   13/07/2017
ISBN :   9781472947338
Format :   Paperback
Pages :   ix, 564 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Size (mm) :   198x129x37
Weight (g) :   428

Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the best loved and most recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times and her critically acclaimed novels 'The Dressmaker' (1973), 'The Bottle Factory Outing' (1974),... Read more
 
Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the best loved and most recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times and her critically acclaimed novels 'The Dressmaker' (1973), 'The Bottle Factory Outing' (1974), 'An Awfully Big Adventure' (1990), 'Every Man For Himself' (1996) and 'Master Georgie' (1998) confirmed her status as one of the major literary figures of the last fifty years. A unique voice in fiction, and unforgettable in person, Beryl Bainbridge was famous for her gregarious drinking habits and her unconventional lifestyle. Yet underneath the public image of a quirky eccentric lay a complex and sometimes traumatic private life that she rarely talked about and which was often only hinted at in her novels. In this biography, Brendan King draws on a mass of unpublished letters and diaries to reveal the real woman behind the popular image.