Edna O'Brien BYRON IN LOVE Signed Hardback
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Edna O'Brien BYRON IN LOVE Signed Hardback
First edition, second print hardback of BYRON IN LOVE, by Edna O'Brien and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London in 2009. Signed and dated by Edna O'Brien on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine), with minor wear to the illustrated dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing to edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
In more than twenty books, Edna O'Brien has charted the emotional and psychic landscape of her native Ireland. Often criticised in her own country for her outspoken stance, she has forged a universal audience; the San Francisco Chronicle described her as 'a worthy heir to the great Irish forebears in Irish literature', while Le Figaro noted that 'the breathlessness of her language is comparable to Faulkner'.
She is the author of her memoir The Country Girls Trilogy which included The Lonely Girl (1962) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). Shortly after their publication, these books were banned and, in some cases burned.
In 1981, she wrote a play, Virginia, about Virginia Woolf. Awards and prizes include the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Premier Cavour (Italian), American National Arts Gold Medal and Ulysses Medal 2006. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction.
Some of her other notable works include: her acclaimed biography of James Joyce published in June 1999, House of Splendid Isolation (1994), Down by the River (1996) and The Light of Evening (2006).
Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.
Byron in Love - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron's life.
Bryon's name is part of the English language. The word 'Byronic' suggests excess, diabolical deeds and a rebelliousness answering neither to king nor commoner. Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel; imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, was 5' 8" in height, had a malformed right foot, chestnut hair, a haunting pallor, grey eyes fringed with dark lashes and an enchantedness that neither men nor women could resist.
Everything about him was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped, however, in a child's magic and malices.
He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.
Edna O'Brien's vivid biography is beautifully spare, exemplary in its concision, and focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron's life. Its narrative core is the triangular relationship between him, his wife and his half-sister that brought him his timeless notoriety
'her novelistic flair lends the well-rehearsed events a fresh drama' Emma Hagestadt, INDEPENDENT
'a funny and perceptive portrait of one of the most infmaous characters in literature' HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER
'Hugely readable, insightful and candid, this is a darkly fascinating portrait of a paradoxical genius.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE
228 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs in glossy pages section.
ISBN: 978 0 297 855538
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