Body Parts
Essays on Life-Writing
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407066219
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
A firework display of mental brilliance
Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday
A pleasure to read: clever, witty, sceptical and sensitive
Irish Times
Provocative
Observer
In its cleverness, intimacy and verve, Lee's own work is utterly engaging - perfect material in which to lose yourself between the sheets
Lucasta Miller, Sunday Times
Grippingly vivid
Financial Times
Fascinating
Independent
Everything Hermione Lee, who both writes and teaches biography, has written about the states of the biographer's art in recent years is worth re-reading
Anne Chisholm, Spectator
Enthralling...This is a superb, intriguing volume of literary curios
Scotland on Sunday
Elegant, level-headed tidbits of higher journalism and light scholarship
Guardian
Contains many incidental pleasures and fascinating facts
Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph