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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Biographer, obituarist (20 years for The Economist) and poet, Ann Wroe brings together in this volume some of the extraordinary lives that she has memorialised, entwined with some of her own memories and poems. People who will be familiar to most readers and many who will be unknown to most. Her intention has always been to seek the tiny, lesser seen, details that she thinks of as being where the soul in a person resides. Their authentic core perhaps. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page ***A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*** 'Lifescapes is the universe in miniature' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'She's a genius, I believe' HILARY MANTEL, author of Wolf Hall 'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not plumbed that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is. In this dazzlingly original blend of memoir, biography, observation and poetry, Ann Wroe reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and those of others, through people she has known, studied or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after. Animated by Wroe's rare imagination, eye for the telling detail, and the wit, beauty and clarity of her writing, Lifescapes is a luminous, deeply personal answer to Shelley's question. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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