Wordy: Sounding Off on High Art, Low Appetite and the Power of Memory

Simon & Schuster UK, London, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. As New. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 402 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall for memory pieces. And informing everything a rich sense of the human comedy and the ways it plays through historical time. It's also a reflection on writers who have been shamelessly gloried in verbal abundance; the performing tumble of language - those who have especially inspired me - Dickens and Melville; Joyce and Marquez.' Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts , political commentary , social analysis and historical study for over forty years. As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and award-winning columnist for many of the world's foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; England; Literature & Literary. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781471180101. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10388. . 9781471180101