Brett Josef Grubisic

Understanding Beryl Bainbridge

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In this introduction to prolific British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, Grubisic provides a biographical sketch of the writer, discussion of her motivations and techniques, and a detailed survey of her fiction that places the works in the traditions of British black comedy, social novels, and historical fiction. Emerging on the literary scene in the 1970s with widely praised novels such as The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William, A Quiet Life, and Injury Time, Bainbridge quickly established a reputation for her keen observations of social dysfunction and her darkly comic tone. In approaching her works, Grubisic maps Bainbridges m… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-57003-756-6
EAN: 9781570037566
Produktnummer: 3767273
Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H17.8 cm x B12.7 cm 295 g
Gewicht: 295
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Brett Josef Grubisic is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. The author of a novel, The Age of Cities, he also edited Contra/diction: New Queer Male Fiction and coedited with Carellin Brooks Carnal Nation, an anthology of Canadian fiction.