Hilary Spurling

The Girl from the Fiction Department: Homesick at the New Yorker

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The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend Hilary Spurling, herself an acclaimed biographer, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life. Beautiful, intelligent, and idealistic, but also, as she grew older, belligerent and intimidating, Sonia was the model for Julia, heroine of Orwell's 1984. Her friends and admirers included W.H. Auden, Lucian Freud, and Frances Bacon. She was Cyril Connolly's indispensable assistant on the influential literary magazine Horizon during the 1940s and in the '60s she co-edited the groundbreaking four-v… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-58243-244-1
EAN: 9781582432441
Produktnummer: 9911511
Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H20.7 cm x B14.3 cm x D1.0 cm 236 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 236

Über den Autor

Hilary Spurling is a prize-winning biographer whose books include Ivy: The Life of Ivy Compton Burnett, Paul Scott, The Unknown Matisse, and La Grande Therese. She is a regular book reviewer for the Daily Telegraph and The New York Times.