Lasting Impressions
β Scribed by V.S. Pritchett
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The essays in Lasting Impressions have never before appeared in book form and together they make up, in the author's own words, a journey through different countries and different generations. The subjects range from Bruce Chatwin and Salmon Rushdie to Simon de Beauvoir and Bernard Shaw, from Lorca and Flaubert to John Updike and Walker Percy, from P. G. Wodehouse and Molly Keane to Andre Malraux and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Published in the year of 1990, V. S. Pritchett's 90th birthday, Lasting Impressions is a tribute to one of the greatest and best loved writers of our time.
β¦ Subjects
Literary Criticism; Nonfiction; LCO010000
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