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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780500516515
This book is a highly personal, chronological account of
Beryl’s life and work – both her writing and her painting – and
provides a vivid first-hand portrait of this free-spirited and
uniquely talented woman. Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a
prolific writer of novels that ranged from black comedies of
contemporary life, often autobiographical in inspiration, to
idiosyncratic reimaginings of historical events and characters.
Less well known is that painting and drawing were also lifelong
passions, and a source of income too in the days before her success
as a writer. Most of all she painted people – friends, lovers, her
children, invented characters, characters from her novels, or
historical figures (she had a particular fascination for Napoleon).
She had no formal training, but developed an exuberance of
technique to match her imagination. The paintings, as one of her
many friends observes, are like Beryl herself: ‘irreverent, funny
and highly original.’ Psiche Hughes was a close friend of Beryl
Bainbridge from the early 1960s to the latter’s death in 2010.
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