An intelligent and subtle biography of George Orwell (1903-1950), the author of 1984 and Animal Farm which between them have sold 40 million copies.
Gordon Bowker has written highly acclaimed biographies of Malcolm Lowry (a New York Times Recommended Book of the Year) and Lawrence Durrell, and articles and reviews for the Observer, the Sunday Times, the New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement.
The strength of his approach lying in his careful and judicious
sifting of the evidence, and in the writing, which possesses an
admirable clarity that Orwell himself would have appreciated *
Independent *
In all his complex contradictions, Orwell comes to energetic
life * Publishers Weekly *
[Orwell is].a voice that speaks as urgently to our times as it did
to his * Economist *
Invaluable... superb and fascinating biography adds enormously
to our understanding of the man * Evening Standard *
Bowker's biography is that of a scholar... he has the
ability to select the right detail and let it speak for itself *
Sunday Telegraph *
Magisterial * Daily Mail *
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