– This is one amazing little book. Its about a young man, who watches the relationship of two older acquaintances as it develops and changes. But it's really a story about love and pretensions writers and shallowness and freedom and the nature of beauty and art and its about so many of the things I care about. How can anyone not love it? Maugham writes as an old friend, and hes always gently mocking, subtly satirical and humane in a way few writers accomplish. Dear Mr. Maugham. I am your fangirliest fan. You amaze me and surprise me in the most satisfying of ways. In the word of every other fangirl out there; Squee!
Cakes And Ale
«Cakes and Ale is a delightfully tart, meandering meditation on what it means to be an author, and its comments on the fickleness of literary celebrity are prescient and amusing. Maugham sees clearly that books are famous because of who tells you to like them, and that authors are 'good' because they are said to be.»
Time Out
Stunningly rejacked as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780099282778
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Cakes and Ale is a delightfully tart, meandering meditation on what it means to be an author, and its comments on the fickleness of literary celebrity are prescient and amusing. Maugham sees clearly that books are famous because of who tells you to like them, and that authors are 'good' because they are said to be.»
Time Out
«A formidable talent, a formidable sum of talents...precision, tact, irony and total absence of pomposity»
Spectator
«[A] witty Thirties novel… Great fun»
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
«One of my favourite writers»
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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– This is one amazing little book. It's about a young man, who watches the relationship of two older acquaintances as it develops and changes. But its really a story about love and pretensions writers and shallowness and freedom and the nature of beauty and art and its about so many of the things I care about. How can anyone not love it? Maugham writes as an old friend, and hes always gently mocking, subtly satirical and humane in a way few writers accomplish. Dear Mr. Maugham. I am your fangirliest fan.
You amaze me and surprise me in the most satisfying of ways. In the word of every other fangirl out there; Squee!