Philip Larkin : a writer's life

Author(s)

• Motion, Andrew

Bibliographic Information

Philip Larkin : a writer's life

Andrew Motion

Faber & Faber, 2018, c1993

2nd ed

Note

First published in 1993

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and most private, poets. 'There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motion's, like Forster's of Dickens, will always have a special place.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer's life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary 'Life' of him.' Peter Conrad, Observer 'Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion's book could not be bettered.' Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

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Details

• NCID: BB2799829X
• ISBN:
  • 9780571346677
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxxviii, 570 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 821.914
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Larkin, Philip
  • LCSH : Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
  • LCSH : Librarians -- Great Britain -- Biography