"A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James."--The Boston Globe Henry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambition, creativity, and rivalry as revealed in the public career and private life of this most singular writer. Framed by a moving and dramatic account of his last illness, Author opens in the early 1880s, describing James's close friendship with an illustrator named George du Maurier and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade, Henry, worried by the...
"A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James."--The Boston Globe Henry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambi...
The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, Lodge's 14th work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with aging and mortality.
The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, Lodge's 14th work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-...
