num_pages: 208
description: Javier Marias revisits the lives of some of the world's most eminent writers, looking at them through some peculiar detail in their lives and provides a lively and illuminating insight into personalities we thought we knew everything about."Mini-bographies/profiles of major writer by an incredibly talented novelist and prose technician.Spare, undaunted,wry and with an incredibly matire and human understanding.
language: English
title: written-lives
titlecomplete: written-lives
genres: Writing, Biography, Books About Books, Spanish Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Spain, Biography Memoir, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 1058
publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD