Weight | 0.380 kg |
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Dimensions | 172 × 198 × 14 mm |
ISBN | 9780747582878 |
Cover | Hardback |
Publication Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
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Literary Lives
Literary Lives is a book of decidedly unauthorised biographies by the acclaimed caricaturist Edward Sorel, who has long believed, that next to composers, writers are the craziest people in the world. The ten writers he has used to prove this thesis are Norman Mailer, George Eliot, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lillian Hellman, Leo Tolstoy, Bertolt Brecht, William Butler Yeats, Carl Jung and Ayn Rand. Although these comic strips are clearly meant to amuse, and the facts uncovered are sometimes hard to believe, each and every statement is absolutely true.
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