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Item Details
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VICTOR HUGO
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| By: |
Graham Robb |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1509855653 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781509855650 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
27 July, 2017 |
| Synopsis: |
`One of the best biographies I have read, ever' Selina Hastings `Mr Robb has written an enthralling book - one of the great biographies of our time. He contrives not to be dwarfed by his subject, which is some contrivance. He makes of Hugo's life a story as exciting to read as it was extraordinary to have lived. He has a matchless gift for narrative. His style is epigrammatic and compelling. His judgements seem fair - not something Hugo was used to in life. Every Place Victor Hugo should now have a Cafe-Bar Graham Robb. He deserves, and will probably get, the Legion d'honneur' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph `Robb achieves the goal of all good literary biographies by making us long to regain, or savour for the first time, Hugo's company as a writer. Surely no chronicler of his life or analyst of his work has ever looked this prodigy of nature so unflinchingly in the eye' Jonathan Keates, Literary Review `Graham Robb's exuberant biography of the French writer blows the cobwebs away from a neglected hero and sets him before us in lurid and quite unforgettable shape. Robb's jaunty, self-confident style is gloriously appropriate to his subject . . . Robb's enthusiasm is hugely exhilarating and his biography is a fascinating study in the making of a celebrity' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times, Books of the Year `The best life of the writer available in English (and likely to remain so for some time) . . . His fascinating, totally readable Life will introduce Hugo to many readers who know him only as a name' Robin Buss, Independent on Sunday |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Whitbread Biography Award 1998 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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