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"The Strings are False" is Louis MacNeice's unfinished autobiography. Written when MacNeice was a young man it was only discovered and published after his death in 1963. Described by Geoffrey Grigson in the "Guardian" as 'the best thing Louis MacNeice ever wrote in prose', "The Strings are False" is being reissued in MacNeice's centenary year with a new preface by Derek Mahon.
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Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963.
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"'Not only vividly readable... but touching and memorable.' Christopher Ricks, Sunday Times"
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0571239420
- ISBN 13 9780571239429
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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