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Author! Author!

By David Lodge

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| Paperback | 9780141018225

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Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, Author, Author begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance FenimoreContinue

Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, Author, Author begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, resolves to achieve fame and fortune as a playwright while Du Maurier diversifies into writing novels. The consequences that ensue mingle comedy, irony, pathos, and suspense. As Du Maurier's novel Trilby becomes the bestseller of the century, Henry anxiously awaits the opening night of his make-or-break play, Guy Domville. This event, on January 5, 1895, and its complex sequel form the climax to Lodge's absorbing novel.

Thronged with vividly drawn characters, some of them with famous names, Author, Author presents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England. But at its heart is a portrait, rendered with remarkable empathy, of a writer who never achieved popular success in his lifetime or resolved his sexual identity, yet wrote some of the greatest novels about love in the English language.

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  • The middle fears

    Author, Author by David Lodge 390pp, Secker and Warburg, £16.99 David Lodge's new novel is about the perils and compulsions of authorship, and the ironies of popular and critical success. One peril it doesn't address until its endnote is the one that ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • James the second

    Author, Author by David Lodge Secker & Warburg £16.99, pp389 David Lodge packs a fair bit into the title of his homage in fiction to Henry James: 'Author! Author!' is the traditional cry of theatrical success, announcing the moment when the solitary ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 400 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0141018224
  • ISBN-13: 9780141018225
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Pub date: Jul 07, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
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