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[The Weekly Standard] - Gordon Bowker's highly praised life of Orwell is “careless,” while D. J. Taylor's biography fails to “extract the maximum meaning from the events he describes.” However, it is Bernard Crick, author of the first biography to make use of the Orwell
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[San Francisco Chronicle] - By Gordon Bowker. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 608 pages; $35). Bowker has produced a fine portrait of Joyce, displaying a sophisticated understanding of the religious, cultural and political background of the writer's life, especially his edgy
Google News: Leave James Joyce Alone!
[The Smart Set] - As I was reading Gordon Bowker's new biography of James Joyce, I wondered what exactly we had gained from these covert raids into the private life of this writer. Bowker spends a great deal of his time recounting personal details that can be directly
'James Joyce,' by Gordon Bowker: review
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[San Francisco Chronicle] - So it is a great boon that British biographer Gordon Bowker, who has written lives of Malcolm Lowry, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell, should have taken on this task, and better yet that he has produced such a fine portrait of the artist and the man
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