Molly Keane Av Sally Phipps

Molly Keane Av Sally Phipps

Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as the Irish Nancy Mitford in her day; as well as writing books she was the leading playwright of the '......
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<P><B>Molly Keane</B> (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for <I>Good Behaviour </I>which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as the Irish Nancy Mitford in her day; as well as writing books she was the leading playwright of the ''30s, her work directed by John Gielgud. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym <B>M.J. Farrell. </B>In 1981, aged seventy, she published <I>Good Behaviour </I>under her own name. The manuscript, which had languished in a drawer for many years, was lent to a visitor, the actress Peggy Ashcroft, who encouraged Keane to publish it.<br><br>Molly Keane''s novels reflect the world she inhabited; she was from a ''rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going family''. She was educated, as was the custom in Anglo-Irish households, by a series of governesses and then at boarding school. Distant and awkward relationships between children and thei
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Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as the Irish Nancy Mitford in her day; as well as writing books she was the leading playwright of the '30s, her work directed by John Gielgud. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J.Farrell. In 1981, aged seventy, she published Good Behaviour under her own name. The manuscript, which had languished in a drawer for many years, was lent to a visitor, the actress Peggy Ashcroft, who encouraged Keane to publish it.Molly Keane's novels reflect the world she inhabited; she was from a 'rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going family'. She was educated, as was the custom in Anglo-Irish households, by a series of governesses and then at boarding school. Distant and awkward relationships between children and their parents would prove to be a recurring theme for Keane.Maggie O'Farrell wrote that 'she writes better than anyone else about the mother-daughter relationship, in all its thorny, fraught, inescapable complexity.'Here, for the first time, is her biography and, written by one of her two daughters, it provides an honest portrait of a fascinating, complicated woman who was a brilliant writer and a portrait of the Anglo-Irish world of the first half of the twentieth century.

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Oppdag Molly Keane Av Sally Phipps

Molly Keane Av Sally Phipps er en dyptgående biografi som gir et fascinerende innblikk i livet til den irske novellisten og dramatikeren, Molly Keane. Med en bakgrunn preget av både skjønnhet og kompleksitet, fanger Phipps historien om sin mor på en gripende måte. Etter å ha eksistert i skyggene til sin mors litterære suksess, bringer Phipps frem Molly Keanes strålende verker og hennes målbare innflytelse på den anglo-irske scenen.

Hvorfor lese om Molly Keane?

  • Fascinerende livshistorie: Opplev en dypt personlig beretning om en kvinne som utfordret normene og etablerte seg som en ledende skikkelse i litteraturen.
  • Utforsk mor-datter-forholdet: En av bokens sterkeste sider er de komplekse relasjonene som preget Keanes liv, som blir utforsket med både empati og ærlighet.
  • Historisk kontekst: Phipps gir leserne en forståelse av den anglo-irske verden og dynamikken fra tidlig 1900-tall, slik at man får en dypere forståelse av Keanes verk.

En personlig tilnærming

Phipps' tilgang til biografisk skriving er som å ta en reise gjennom tid og rom. Med hver side inviteres leseren inn i Keanes komplekse sinn, der man kan se hvordan hennes erfaringer formet hennes litterære stemme. Dette er mer enn bare en biografi; det er et kjærlighetsbrev fra datter til mor, som gir et sjeldent og intimt blikk på en av Irelands mest unike forfattere.

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Enten du er en litteraturelsker, en biografientusiast eller bare nysgjerrig på Molly Keanes liv, Molly Keane Av Sally Phipps er et must-read. Ikke gå glipp av muligheten til å fordype deg i denne gripende fremstillingen av en stor forfatter og et bemerkelsesverdig liv.

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