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The Life-Writer

The Life-Writer

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  • Release Date: 27/10/2016
  • Barcode: 9781771961011
  • Genre: Biography
  • Label: Biblioasis
  • Publisher: Biblioasis
  • Subgenre: Fiction
The Life-Writer

The Life-Writer

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While writing her late husband's biography, Katrin struggles with heartache after discovering that she was never his true love.
A New York Times Notable Book 2016An October Indie Next List Great Reads” PickAfter the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she comes to the devastating conclusion that his life before their marriage was far richer than the one they shared. To understand and recreate the period of his greatest happinesshitch-hiking through France as a young man, madly in love with his companion, a French girl named MoniqueKatrin embarks on a heartbreaking journey to discover the man she never fully knew.David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and, translator. The title story of his North American debut collection of short fiction, In Another Country: Selected Stories (Biblioasis, 2015) was adapted into the Academy Awardnominated feature film 45 Years. He is the author of one previous novel, Davies, as well as four collections of short stories in the United Kingdom, and five collections of poetry. He lives in Oxford, England, where until 2012 he edited Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.

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