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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
January 4, 2005
Pages
334
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375508530
ISBN-10
0375508538
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.40 lbs.
Availability§
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Original list price
$25.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The first in-depth biography of one of the twentieth century's leading literary lights chronicles the long life and productive career of acclaimed novelist, essayist, critic, biographer, short story writer, and travel author V. S. Pritchett, from his youth in his native Britain to his remarkable success in the U.S. 10,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Long considered the English Chekhov, V. S. Pritchett was described by Eudora Welty as âone of the great pleasure-givers in our language.â Here is a true literary event: the first major biography of this extraordinary writer, who for most of a century ennobled the ordinary, and the affecting story of the two tumultuous marriages that fueled his art.
He would become universally known as V.S.P., but he began life as Victorânamed for Queen Victoriaâin 1900. His imagination was both an inheritance from and an inoculation against his unpredictable father: a charming spendthrift who went bankrupt in a variety of businesses. For Victor, writing ultimately became a way to turn the pain of his past into security.
As a reporter in the 1920s, Pritchett was posted to some of the trouble spots of Europe, including pre-Civil War Spain, but he preferred travel to politics, honing the acute perception of common people that he used to great effect in his fiction. His youthful marriage to a better-born aspiring actress was his first crisis, leaving him in sexual misery, comforted only by the âinner riotâ of his imagination.
His affair with and marriage to Dorothy Roberts, in his mid-thirties, changed his life. Passionate and forceful, she became Pritchettâs support and secretary, helping him to develop his voice in short stories, novels, literary journalism, and memoirs. His work dramatized the world of his native lower middle class, showing how âevery life is interesting.â Their union produced two children and a cache of stunning erotic letters, published in part here for the first time.
But as Pritchettâs international fame as an author and critic grew, so did the coupleâs separations. Already a serious drinker, Dorothy became an alcoholic. Pritchett took an American mistress while in residence at Princeton, causing a painful and prolonged domestic crisis.
Illuminating the connections between events in his life and famous works such as his novel Mr. Beluncle, dramatizing the friendships Pritchett forged with other writers, particularly Gerald Brenan, and cogently analyzing the undeserved eclipse his reputation would suffer immediately after his death, Jeremy Treglownâs V. S. Pritchett is the complete story of a popular, influential, deceptively simple author, a man to whom, he once misleadingly claimed, ânothing continues to happen.â
He would become universally known as V.S.P., but he began life as Victorânamed for Queen Victoriaâin 1900. His imagination was both an inheritance from and an inoculation against his unpredictable father: a charming spendthrift who went bankrupt in a variety of businesses. For Victor, writing ultimately became a way to turn the pain of his past into security.
As a reporter in the 1920s, Pritchett was posted to some of the trouble spots of Europe, including pre-Civil War Spain, but he preferred travel to politics, honing the acute perception of common people that he used to great effect in his fiction. His youthful marriage to a better-born aspiring actress was his first crisis, leaving him in sexual misery, comforted only by the âinner riotâ of his imagination.
His affair with and marriage to Dorothy Roberts, in his mid-thirties, changed his life. Passionate and forceful, she became Pritchettâs support and secretary, helping him to develop his voice in short stories, novels, literary journalism, and memoirs. His work dramatized the world of his native lower middle class, showing how âevery life is interesting.â Their union produced two children and a cache of stunning erotic letters, published in part here for the first time.
But as Pritchettâs international fame as an author and critic grew, so did the coupleâs separations. Already a serious drinker, Dorothy became an alcoholic. Pritchett took an American mistress while in residence at Princeton, causing a painful and prolonged domestic crisis.
Illuminating the connections between events in his life and famous works such as his novel Mr. Beluncle, dramatizing the friendships Pritchett forged with other writers, particularly Gerald Brenan, and cogently analyzing the undeserved eclipse his reputation would suffer immediately after his death, Jeremy Treglownâs V. S. Pritchett is the complete story of a popular, influential, deceptively simple author, a man to whom, he once misleadingly claimed, ânothing continues to happen.â
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9780375508530 | details & prices | 334 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $25.95
About: A biography of one of the twentieth century's leading literary lights chronicles the long life and productive career of acclaimed novelist, essayist, critic, biographer, short story writer, and travel author V.
About: A biography of one of the twentieth century's leading literary lights chronicles the long life and productive career of acclaimed novelist, essayist, critic, biographer, short story writer, and travel author V.
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