Ariel : a literary life of Jan Morris
Johns, Derek, 1948-2017
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Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir 'Conundrum', which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972. But as 'Ariel' demonstrates, this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her life. As James Morris she was the journalist who brought back the story of the conquest of Everest in 1953 and who discovered incontrovertible evidence of British involvement in the Suez Crisis of 1956. She has been described by Rebecca West as the finest prose stylist of her time, and her essays span the entire urban world.
Main title:
Ariel : a literary life of Jan Morris / Derek Johns ; drawings by Jan Morris.
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Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
xi, 196 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780571331642 (pbk)
Dewey class:
828.914828.914 MOR
Language:
English
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BRN:
2534974