Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift--Booker Prize-winning author of Waterland and Last Orders--gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer's life. Here Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar; Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard; Caryl Phillips shares a beer with the author at a nightclub in Toronto. There are private moments with Swift's father and with his own younger self, as well as musings--on history, memory, and imagination--that illuminate his work. As generous in its scope as it is acute in its observations, Making an Elephant brings together a richly varied s…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-45575-8
- EAN: 9780307455758
- Produktnummer: 5955176
- Verlag: Vintage
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 401 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.3 cm 381 g
- Gewicht: 381
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