Synopses & Reviews
The first memoir by an influential poet, novelist, and critic, full of literary anecdotesA prolific author of novels, poetry collections, plays, biographies, and translations, Elaine Feinstein shares the story of her journey from a Jewish childhood in Leicester into the undergraduate world of post-war Cambridge, the excitement of friendships in the literary world, and the tensions of a poet's writing life inside a long and sometimes painful marriage. This book, however, is not only the intimate memoir of one of Britain's finest poets and novelists: it is also the story of a rapidly changing country and of an entire generation of authors. Told with the precision of a biographer and the finesse of a poet, and peppered with witty literary anecdotes, this is an absorbing read from beginning to end.
About the Author
Elaine Feinstein has written 15 novels, 19 collections of poetry, and several biographies, including Anna of All the Russias and Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet.