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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Book Condition: New. 1997. New edition. Paperback. . . . . . Bookseller Inventory # V9780747531692

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 197 x 128 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip.;The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding.;Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.;James Knowlson is the general editor of "The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett". Bookseller Inventory # AA79780747531692

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (New edition), James Knowlson, Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip.;The book includes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding.;Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.;James Knowlson is the general editor of "The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett". Bookseller Inventory # B9780747531692

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Book Condition: New. 1997. New edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland . Bookseller Inventory # V9780747531692

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Book Description: 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1st. 128mm x 197mm x 196mm. 896 pages. 0.750. Bookseller Inventory # 9780747531692

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997. paperback. Book Condition: New. *** NEW COPY *** TITLE SHIPPED FROM UK *** Binding paperback Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged. Bookseller Inventory # 0747531692

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Book Description: Bloomsbury, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 896 pages. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0747531692

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from UK. Bookseller Inventory # FV-9780747531692

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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New and in stock. Book. Bookseller Inventory # 0747531692

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Book Description: 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 1st. 128mm x 197mm x 196mm. 896 pages. 0.750. Bookseller Inventory # 9780747531692

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