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Pandora's Handbag Elizabeth Young

Pandora's Handbag par Elizabeth Young

Pandora's Handbag Elizabeth Young

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Résumé

Elizabeth Young's life was turned upside down when she was given, at the age of 11, three American novels: Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm, Ginsberg's Howl and Kerouac's On the Road. The writings collected here exhibit her thoughts and her dedication to high critical standards.

Pandora's Handbag Résumé

Pandora's Handbag: Adventures in the Book World Elizabeth Young

Born into a Calvinist Scottish family, Elizabeth Young?s life was turned upside down when she was given, at the age of 11, three American novels: Algren?s The Man with the Golden Arm, Ginsberg?s Howl and Kerouac?s On the Road. An exceptionally ghoulish child, obsessed with graveyards, owls, wolves and horror stories, she very early on decided to devote her life to books, reading and writing. Elizabeth Young?s collected writings exhibit her singular attraction to the bizarre and her dedication to the high standards of a critic. Witty, incisive, wide-ranging and also moving, Pandora?s Handbag chronicles the journey of a modern arts critic and Young?s personal journey from childhood to critic. Each previously published article is presented in its entirety, with original titles and additional notes. This collection includes two of Young?s crusading articles (on Drug Legislation and the Hepatitus C virus), which have become seminal texts.

Pandora's Handbag Avis

?Young was a fearless champion of fearless writing, a merciless opponent of cant, convention and hypocrisy, whose prose could progress effortlessly from the painfully direct, to the gnomic, to the discursive, to the outright quirky? Will Self ?If you like books, buy this one. If you like reading, read this. Her introduction deserves anthologisation. Her evaluations of authors are bang on the money. Her non-literary pieces are both passionate and useful? Guardian ?Pandora?s Handbag is a stunning collection of literary criticism and journalism by a brilliantly subversive writer? Scotsman ?Young wrote with a direct, unshockable, assimilative Scottish tone of pawky humour that reminded us how subversive contemporary underground fiction can (and should) be? The Times ?An essential read for anyone with an interest in contemporary literature outside the bland bestselling mainstream? Scotland on Sunday ?If criticism means anything, it is a creative response to the artefact and artist under discussion. Elizabeth Young rose to that challenge consistently- the most innovative critic of her generation? Independent

À propos de Elizabeth Young

Elizabeth Young was brought up in Scotland but lived for most of her life in London. Her journalism appeared in numerous publications including The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian and The New Statesman. Elizabeth Young died in London in March 2001.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR003886768
9781852427610
1852427612
Pandora's Handbag: Adventures in the Book World Elizabeth Young
Elizabeth Young
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Profile Books Ltd
20030313
384
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