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Novel On Yellow Paper
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Novel On Yellow Paper
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Stevie Smith
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Series | Virago Modern Classics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:208 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 166 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780860681465
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Classifications | Dewey:823.912 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group
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Imprint |
Virago Press Ltd
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Publication Date |
28 April 1980 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE 'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit' - Frances Spalding, Independent Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.
Author Biography
Stevie Smith was born Florence Margaret in 1902. When she tried to publish a volume of poems, she was told to 'go away and write a novel'. This was the result. She died in 1971.
ReviewsA more individual talent than Stevie Smith's you don't get. An artist of utmost sophistication... Her pre-war Novel on Yellow Paper is an unforgettable work that has nevertheless needed to be rediscovered several times since the day it was first greeted, correctly, as a masterpiece - Clive James, the New Yorker
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