Forty-One False Starts Janet Malcolm

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From the celebrated author of The Journalist and the Murderer and Reading Chekhov comes a brilliant, compelling collection of essays on art, artists and the troubled nature of biography

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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm

Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle.

About Janet Malcolm

JANET MALCOLM is widely considered to be America's pre-eminent literary journalist. She is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives, The Journalist and the Murderer, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice [Yale University Press] in 2008. She lives in New York.

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ISBN 13

9781847088567

ISBN 10

1847088562

Title

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm

Author

Janet Malcolm

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New

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Paperback

Publisher

Granta Books

Year published

20140807

Number of pages

320

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