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Circus of dreams : adventures in the 1980s literary world

Walsh, John, 1953- author

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\"Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began with two names - Martin Amis and Ian McEwan - and became a flood: Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Pat Barker among them. The rise of the newcomers coincided with astonishing changes in the way books were published - and the ways in which readers bought them and interacted with their authors. Suddenly, authors of serious fiction were like rock stars, fashionable, sexy creatures, shrewdly marketed and feted in public...Through this exciting, hectic period, the journalist and author John Walsh played many parts: literary editor, reviewer, interviewer, prize judge and TV pundit. He met and interviewed numerous literary stars, attended the best launch parties and digested all the gossip and scandal of the time. In Circus of Dreams he reports on what he found, first with wide-eyed delight and then with a keen eye on what drove this glorious era. The result is a unique hybrid of personal memoir, oral history, literary investigation and elegy for a golden age.\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Constable
• Subject: Walsh, John, 1953- / 1900-1999 / Critics Great Britain. / English fiction 20th century History and criticism. / Nineteen eighties. / Publishers and publishing Great Britain History 20th century. / Critiques Grande-Bretagne. / Roman anglais 20e siècle Histoire et critique. / Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) / Literature. / Critics / English fiction / Intellectual life / Nineteen eighties / Publishers and publishing / Literature: history & criticism. / Biography: literary. / Memoirs. / Autobiography: literary. / Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000. / United Kingdom, Great Britain. / Biography, literature & literary studies. / English. / c 1980 to c 1989. / Ireland. / Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century. / Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle. / Great Britain
• ISBN: 9781472133489, 147213348X, 9781472133472, 1472133471

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