THE FABER BOOK OF WRITERS ON WRITERS.
Pp. xxiv+216m sources; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in black; dust wrapper, faintly foxed on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the text block foxed and browned at edges; Faber and Faber, London, 1999. Second printing. *'Jonson on Shakespeare; Hazlitt on Coleridge; Philip Roth dashing the hopes of a dying Bernard Malamud; Virginia Woolf glimpsing D. H. Lawrence on an Italian railway platform from a passing train; V. S. Naipaul leaving Paul Theroux to pay the bill for tea . . . . An anthology of rivalry, jealousy, hatred, bitterness and revenge, dotted with occasional moments of admiration, magnanimity and affection' [wrapper blurb]. Item #181656
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