For love and money
£12.99
First published in 1987, Raban writes about reading and travelling, fleshing out London literary life in the ’70s and ’80s.
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This collection of writing undertaken for love and money is about books and travel, and makes for an engrossing and candid exploration of what it means to live from writing. Jonathan Raban weighs up the advantages of maintaining an independent spirit against problems of insolvency and self-worth, confesses to travel as an escape from the blank page, ponders the true art of the book review, admires the role of the literary editor and remembers with affection and hilarity events from his eccentric life at the heart of literary London. Reading it is like embarking on a humane, rigorous and witty conversation.
| Weight | 0.438 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.7 × 15 × 2.2 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 344 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 828.91409 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
