Maeve Brennan : homesick at the New Yorker / Angela Bourke

Bourke, Angela

ISBN 10: 0224062603 / ISBN 13: 9780224062602

Verlag: London : Jonathan Cape, 2004

Beschreibung

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: photographs, portraits; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Brennan, Maeve. Brennan, Maeve Homes and haunts New York (State) New York.New Yorker (New York, N.Y: 1925). Authors, Irish Homes and haunts New York (State) New York.Irish New York (State) New York; Biography. Authors, Irish 20th century; Biography. Genre:Bibliography. Biography.Illustrated. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 322258

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Titel: Maeve Brennan : homesick at the New Yorker /...

Verlag: London : Jonathan Cape

Erscheinungsdatum: 2004

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: 1st edition.

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Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate theatres. She was seventeen when her father was appointed to the Irish Legation in Washington DC, where he was Irish Minister throughout World War II. Maeve worked writing fashion copy at Harper's Bazaar until 1949, when William Shawn invited her to join the New Yorker. Tiny, impeccably groomed, and devastatingly witty, in William Maxwell's words, 'to be around her was to see style being invented'. She wrote important fiction, criticism and Talk of the Town pieces for the New Yorker magazine throughout its most influential period in the 1950s and '60s, focusing on memory, migration and identity; her material, and women's lives. As this richly researched and wide-ranging book makes clear, Maeve Brennan's effect on the people who met her, her eye for human behaviour, clothing and domestic settings, her unsparing reading of literature, her memory of home and her courageous life as a woman alone in metropolitan America make her an icon of the twentieth century.