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20%OFFAlexander Masters - A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip - 9780008130817 - V9780008130817
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A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip

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Description for A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip Paperback. Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap. A Life Discarded is a biographical detective story. In 2001, 148 tattered and mould-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008130817
SKU
V9780008130817
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About Alexander Masters
Alexander Masters' first book, Stuart: A Life Backwards, won the Guardian First Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography Prize. Eighteen different newspapers and popular magazines chose it as Book of the Year. It was turned into a BBC film starring Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch. Alexander lives in Sussex. ... Read more

Reviews for A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip
`A bizarre, engrossing, affectionate book that is a triumph on every level.' The Times `Profoundly moving.' Daily Mail `If Masters investigations feel like a Paul Auster detective story, there are also traces of Alan Bennet bad Barbary Pym seeping through the Cambridge hedges ... It's not life affirming - Masters isn't slick or pompous ... Read more

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