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Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his Continue
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lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett
How ironic that a writer as chary of public scrutiny as Samuel Beckett should this year be the subject of two very substantial biographies and a biographical study, between them taking up some fifteen hundred large, dense pages, as well as of numerou ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Hardcover 800 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0684808722
- ISBN-13: 9780684808727
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Pub date: Oct 01, 1996
- Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1097 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and Others
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780684808727 | Hardcover | $35.00 | -- | The Book Depository |
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