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Maggie O'Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
By (author) Dr Elaine Canning
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Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction, Maggie O’Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children’s books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself. The first full-length study of O’Farrell’s work, this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait. With a timeline of her life and works, as well as suggested further reading, the themes explored include grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published date | 24 Jul 2025
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 176
Dimensions | 232 x 154 x 14mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 280g
ISBN | 978-1-3503-2504-3
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BISAC | literary criticism / european / english, irish, scottish, welsh
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