Philip Larkin A Writers Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as an exemplary biography of its kind (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth centurys most popular, and most private, poets. There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motions, like Forsters of Dickens, will always have a special place. John Carey, Sunday TimesLarkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writers life Motion affectionate but undeceived about the mans frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry has written an equally exemplary Life of him. Peter Conrad, ObserverHonest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motions book could not be bettered. Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

Binding: Paperback;640 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: BG; Weight: 754 g; Dimensions: 194 x 173 x 46

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