Buy this book on-line SMITH, SEAN: : J.K. ROWLING - A BiographyLONDON.MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS LTD.,2001. ISBN 1854798200.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,subject portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with
negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - almost
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Bright,unblemished,royal blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,7-224pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list/table,acknowledgements,author introduction,16 chapters and an afterthought,8pp contemporary colour photographs between pp96/7,4pp bibliography and an index.
Creator of the most famous and best-loved
character in contemporary fiction,J.K.
Rowling is also the author of her own escape from a depressing existence on the verge of destitution.The tale of the quiet
woman writing away at a cafe table,making
a solitary cup of coffee and a glass of water last for hours while her baby daughter slept peacefully in her pram may have become a cliche,but it has also served as an inspiration for,literally, millions of people.On the one hand there is J.K. Rowling who wrote,and continues to write,the Harry Potter novels,the literary phenomenon of the nineties and the new millenium.On the other,there is Joanne Rowling (the 'J.K.' was her agent's
marketing notion),a dreamy,rather shy but surprisingly passionate woman whose brilliance in translating her dreams into prose changed her life.In January 1994 she was broke and jobless,struggling to bring up a young child in a small rented flat in Edinburgh.Just six years later,with her first book transformed into a major Hollywood film,she was reportedly worth £65 million.
To her vast readership,the Harry Potter novels are more than simple fantasy: there
is a toughness to the writing,a sense of realism and a questing morality that go beyond mere adventure,magic and the battle between good and evil.This first full- length biography uses exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with many who have known J.K.Rowling to examine how these books came to be written,and the influences that shaped both them and the life of their author,which led in the
end - after many trials - to fame and fortune.
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