![]() ![]() ![]() But sometimes she says weird things: for instance, Montpellier had a population of a little under 100,000 in the fifties, and yet she calls it a 'romote village'. OK, Bair didn't know that Beckett was beaten several times by Alfred Le Peton at Earlsfort House School. Unfortunately this book is spoiled by errors, and not just a few but many. It's excellent in many ways, but although I reviewed Anthony Cronin's work earlier neither of the books are up to the standard of James Knowlson's biography, which I've yet to read. Deirdre Bair's PhD was on Beckett, so she obviously knows her subject, this was the first biography on the writer and he wasn't opposed to its publication, and this is certainly a thorough work on the man's life and his work. ![]()
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