Description
Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the glittering medieval tyrant, devoted to gambling and getting around the law, and the wriggling modern pragmatist, whose dilemma over Jesus has been described by Tony Blair as 'a timeless parable of political life'. This is also the story of the man Pilate might have been; and the man who mirrors us. Ann Wroe shows how, in his struggles with fate and free will, Pilate's story has also become the story of ourselves.
Anne Wroe's extraordinary and compelling biography of a very elusive figure.
About the Author
Ann Wroe is the Obituaries editor of The Economist, and has written its weekly obituary for almost two decades. She is the author of eight previous works of non-fiction, including biographies of Pontius Pilate (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith Award), Perkin Warbeck, Shelley, Orpheus (winner of the Criticos Prize) and St Francis. She lives in Brighton and London.
Reviews
The touch of a master novelist... Few have ever explored so imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail' * Sunday Telegraph *
Because so little is known, it is possible to speculate endlessly. If one's mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe's, then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent and discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, and a fine-tuned psychological perception * Daily Express *
Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer... It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book -- A.N.Wilson * Daily Mail *
Extraordinary and compelling -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph *
She manages always to keep Pilate living and breathing in the text, and occasionally kicking and screaming * Independent on Sunday *
Awards
Short-listed for WH Smith Literary Prize 2000 and WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2000 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 1999.
Book Information
ISBN 9780099287933
Author Ann Wroe
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 287g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 25mm
Anne Wroe's extraordinary and compelling biography of a very elusive figure.
About the Author
Ann Wroe is the Obituaries editor of The Economist, and has written its weekly obituary for almost two decades. She is the author of eight previous works of non-fiction, including biographies of Pontius Pilate (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith Award), Perkin Warbeck, Shelley, Orpheus (winner of the Criticos Prize) and St Francis. She lives in Brighton and London.
Reviews
The touch of a master novelist... Few have ever explored so imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail' * Sunday Telegraph *
Because so little is known, it is possible to speculate endlessly. If one's mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe's, then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent and discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, and a fine-tuned psychological perception * Daily Express *
Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer... It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book -- A.N.Wilson * Daily Mail *
Extraordinary and compelling -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph *
She manages always to keep Pilate living and breathing in the text, and occasionally kicking and screaming * Independent on Sunday *
Awards
Short-listed for WH Smith Literary Prize 2000 and WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2000 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 1999.
Book Information
ISBN 9780099287933
Author Ann Wroe
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 287g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 25mm
