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You'll Enjoy It When You Get There

The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor

You'll Enjoy It When You Get There( )
Author: Taylor, Elizabeth
Introduction by: Drabble, Margaret
Selected by: Drabble, Margaret
ISBN:978-1-59017-727-3
Publication Date:Sep 2014
Publisher:New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Imprint:NYRB Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett's uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the...
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Book Details
Pages:400
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.03 x 8 x 0.9 Inches
Book Weight:1.025 Pounds
Author Biography
Taylor, Elizabeth (Author)
Margaret Drabble was born on June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, England. She attended The Mount School in York and Newnham College, Cambridge University. After graduation, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford during which time she understudied for Vanessa Redgrave.

She is a novelist, critic, and the editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her works include A Summer Bird Cage; The Millstone, which won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize in 1966; Jerusalem the Golden, which won James Tait Black Prize in 1967; and The Witch of Exmoor. She also received the E. M. Forster award and was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Fellowship in the 1960s and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980.

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