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Chargement... The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Works of Catherine Cookson (édition 1997)par Piers Dudgeon (Auteur)
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Catherine Cookson was born 100 years ago in a run-down area on the south bank of the Tyne. Forty-four years later her début novel, Kate Hannigan, established her as a bestselling storyteller of rare talent. But what readers didn't realise was that Kate Hannigan also represented the first step of the author's triumph over a nervous breakdown and a period of confinement in a mental asylum. Still in the throes of her illness, she was transforming her fears out of necessity through her art. Piers Dudgeon was granted exclusive interviews over a 15-year period until Catherine's death in 1998. Now, in the company of her family and others who declined to be interviewed during her lifetime, he sheds new light on the tortured drama of her personal life and her legacy to the nation. This revised biography is a revealing tribute to an enduringly popular writer in her centenary year, and will fascinate her many loyal fans. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Drawing parallels between her own existence as a person and an artist, and that of big literary names such as Dickens and D.H. Lawrence, and, as she herself put it, "transposing her character into the characters in her books" beautifully in order to illuminate points of particular interest, this book simply joins the dots in a wonderful way, and paints a marvellous picture of the metamorphosis of the Girl from Leam Lane into a name lovingly issued from the lips of thousands of thankful fans.
Complete with stunning photographs of "wor Kate" throughout the years, this biography brings the magnetic, radiant person that she was to life as convincingly as she does her own characters. ( )