J.B. Priestley
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in twentieth-century British letters cast as long and varied a shadow as J.B. Priestley — playwright, novelist, essayist, and broadcaster — and John Braine's critical biography rises to the formidable challenge of capturing the man in full. This authoritative study chronicles Priestley's remarkable career, from the roaring success of The Good Companions and the enduring theatrical power of An Inspector Calls to his wartime radio broadcasts that made him a voice of national conscience, presenting a portrait of an artist whose prolific output defied easy categorisation. Braine, himself a celebrated novelist of the post-war Angry Young Men generation, brings a writer's sharp and sympathetic eye to his subject, illuminating Priestley's deep roots in the English Midlands, his robust socialism, and his fierce independence from literary fashion. The result is a study that argues persuasively for Priestley's central, often underestimated, place in the cultural life of modern Britain — leaving the reader to wonder whether literary history has yet rendered its final, fair verdict on this most prolific of English writers.
Author: John Braine
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in twentieth-century British letters cast as long and varied a shadow as J.B. Priestley — playwright, novelist, essayist, and broadcaster — and John Braine's critical biography rises to the formidable challenge of capturing the man in full. This authoritative study chronicles Priestley's remarkable career, from the roaring success of The Good Companions and the enduring theatrical power of An Inspector Calls to his wartime radio broadcasts that made him a voice of national conscience, presenting a portrait of an artist whose prolific output defied easy categorisation. Braine, himself a celebrated novelist of the post-war Angry Young Men generation, brings a writer's sharp and sympathetic eye to his subject, illuminating Priestley's deep roots in the English Midlands, his robust socialism, and his fierce independence from literary fashion. The result is a study that argues persuasively for Priestley's central, often underestimated, place in the cultural life of modern Britain — leaving the reader to wonder whether literary history has yet rendered its final, fair verdict on this most prolific of English writers.