Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller - Softcover

Thurman, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312902026 ISBN 13: 9780312902025

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1982

Synopsis

The first comprehensive biography of Dinesen provides a definitive portrait of the life, literary career, and art of the eminent woman writer

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Thurman, critic and biographer, won the National Book Award and two foreign literary prizes for her work. She is the also the author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New York Times, among many other publications. She lives in New York City.

Review:

"This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live."--Margaret Drabble, The New York Times Book Review

"Splendid, inestimably valuable . . . I cannot imagine that it will be supplanted. Right now it is the essential book on Isak Dinesen."--Chicago Tribune Book World

"Absorbing biography . . . This is a gothic tale worthy of the author of Seven Gothic Tales."--Victoria Glendinning, The Washington Post Book World
-- Review

"This, like the best biographies, is a book in which the reader can live."--Margaret Drabble, The New York Times Book Review

"Splendid, inestimably valuable . . . I cannot imagine that it will be supplanted. Right now it is the essential book on Isak Dinesen."--Chicago Tribune Book World

"Absorbing biography . . . This is a gothic tale worthy of the author of Seven Gothic Tales."--Victoria Glendinning, The Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0312902026
• ISBN 13: 9780312902025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 511