- Published: 1 May 2008
- ISBN: 9781844137466
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $43.00
Body Parts
Essays on Life-Writing
Formats & editions
Buy from…
- Published: 1 May 2008
- ISBN: 9781844137466
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $43.00
Elegant, level-headed tidbits of higher journalism and light scholarship
Guardian
Fascinating
Independent
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
Enthralling...This is a superb, intriguing volume of literary curios
Scotland on Sunday
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
A pleasure to read: clever, witty, sceptical and sensitive
Irish Times
Provocative
Observer
Contains many incidental pleasures and fascinating facts
Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
A firework display of mental brilliance
Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday
Grippingly vivid
Financial Times