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Lord Gnome's Literary Companion Francis Wheen

Lord Gnome's Literary Companion By Francis Wheen

Lord Gnome's Literary Companion by Francis Wheen


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Summary

In the midst of literary hackery and the network of debts and allegiances that is literary London, one repository of fearless literary criticism stands out - the literary review page of Private Eye. In this book, Francis Wheen has assembled, in thematic order, a collection of criticism of books.

Lord Gnome's Literary Companion Summary

Lord Gnome's Literary Companion by Francis Wheen

His review has got to be 'in' by mid-day tomorrow ...at about 9pm his mind will grow relatively clear, and until the small hours he will sit ...skipping expertly through one book after another and laying each one down with the comment, 'God, what tripe!' ...Then suddenly he will snap into it. All the stale old phrases - 'a book that no one should miss', 'something memorable on every page' - jump into their places like iron filings obeying the magnet. Thus did George Orwell, writing forty years ago in Confessions of a Book Reviewer, describe the labours of a typical literary hack. Precious little has changed over the intervening decades; the servility of the satirical magazine Private Eye. Lord Gnome's Literary Companion assembles, in thematic order, the best of these columns to present an astringent, rude and funny survey of publishers and the published.

Lord Gnome's Literary Companion Reviews

The originality, imagination and hilarity of the best writing here makes Gnome's a far more heart-warming Companion than the mill-run of Christmas round-ups. - New Statesman and Society This is the authentic voice of moral outrage, rarely heard in the literary world today. Long may His Lordship keep raising it. - Sunday Times

About Francis Wheen

Francis Wheen writes regularly for the Observer, Guardian, Private Eye and Literary Review. His previous books include Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions.

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GOR004068604
9781859840450
1859840450
Lord Gnome's Literary Companion by Francis Wheen
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Verso Books
19951107
362
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