Description
A pre-eminent Orwell scholar's lifetime of work on the icon of modern literature
About the Author
Jeffrey Meyers has written extensively on literature, film, and art. He is the author of forty-eight books, including The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe and biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meyers is one of twelve Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2005 he received an Award in Literature "to honor exceptional achievement" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Reviews
"Highly recommended."--Choice
"This pathbreaking study encompasses Jeffrey Meyers' stunning achievement in Orwell scholarship across four decades. Orwell: Life and Art is both a compelling work of literary criticism and a sophisticated psychological meditation on Orwell's embattled creative life. Best of all, Meyers' direct, hard-hitting prose eschews academic Newspeak and is 'Orwell-like'--not at all 'Orwellian'--in the style and spirit of Orwell's own plain-spoken language and bracing common sense."--John Rodden, author of George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation and Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings
Book Information
ISBN 9780252077463
Author Jeffrey Meyers
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm