Circus Of Dreams: Adventures In The 1980S Literary World John Walsh Constable Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Reference

Something Extraordinary Happened To The Uk Literary Scene In 1980S Space Of Eight Years A Generation Young British Writers Took Novel Into New Realms Setting Subject Matter And Style Challenging - Almost Eclipsing Establishment 1950S It Began With Two Names Martin Amis Ian Mcewan Became Flood: Julian Barnes William Boyd Graham Swift Salman Rushdie Jeanette Winterson Pat Barker Among Them Rise Newcomers Coincided Astonishing Changes Way Books Were Published Ways Which Readers Bought Interacted Their Authors Suddenly Serious Fiction Like Rock Stars Fashionable Sexy Creatures Shrewdly Marketed Feted Public Yearly Bunfight Booker Prize Keen Interest Tim Waterstone Established First Chain Revolutionary Bookshops London Publishing Houses Playground Exciting Visionary Entrepreneurs Who Introduced Forms Magical Realist Feminist Post-Colonial Gay Modern Independent Spend Ostentatious Sums On Author Advances Glamorous Book Launches Was Nothing Short Watershed Culture Its Climax Issuing Death Sentence By Fundamentalist Leader Whose Hostility Western Ideas Free Speech Made Him Literally World\ S Most Lethal Critic Through This Hectic Period Journalist John Walsh Played Many Parts: Editor Reviewer Interviewer Judge Tv Pundit He Met Interviewed Numerous Attended Best Launch Parties Digested All Gossip Scandal Time Circus Dreams Reports What Found Wide-Eyed Delight Then Eye Drove Glorious Era Result Is Unique Hybrid Personal Memoir Oral History Investigation Elegy For Golden Age Σελίδες: 432 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0807 Διαστάσεις: 15 8X15 8Cm