Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394405331
- ISBN 13
- 9780394405339
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Reno, Nevada, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
Synopsis
Victoria Glendinning was born in the north of England and read French and Spanish at Oxford. Her first book was A Suppressed Cry , a family memoir about her Quaker great-aunt. She has written biographies of Edith Sitwell (which won the James Tait Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize), Vita Sackville-West (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Rebecca West, Anthony Trollope (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf. She co-edited Mothers and Sons with her son Matthew Glendinning, and has published three novels, The Grown-Ups , Electricity , and Flight . She reviews books for national newspapers and journals, has been a judge of the W. H. Smith Prize and other literary awards, and chair of the judges of the Booker Prize. From 2000-03 she was president of English PEN. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and was awarded a CBE in 1998.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 499812-6
- Title
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Author
- Glendinning, Victoria
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394405331
- ISBN 13
- 9780394405339
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1978
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