The adventures of God in his search for the Black Girl - Hardcover

Brophy, Brigid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333151836 ISBN 13: 9780333151839

Publisher: Macmillan, 1973

Synopsis

. no dustjacket, 1973, clean copy

About this title

About the Author:

Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was an acclaimed novelist, essayist, critic and campaigner. Her fiction included Hackenfeller's Ape (1953), The King of a Rainy Country (1956), Flesh (1962), The Finishing Touch (1963), The Snow Ball (1964), In Transit (1969), The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl (1971) and Palace without Chairs (1978). Her non-fiction included Black Ship to Hell (1962), Mozart the Dramatist (1964), two books about Aubrey Beardsley - Black and White (1968) and Beardsley and His World (1976), and Prancing Novelist: In Praise Of Ronald Firbank (1973). In 1954 she married the art historian Michael Levey (later the director of the British National Gallery from 1973-1987, knighted in 1981). The couple had one daughter, Kate. Brophy was a noted campaigner on several platforms, in particular her fight to establish an authors' Public Lending Right and her vice-presidency of the National Anti-Vivisection Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0333151836
• ISBN 13: 9780333151839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223