Reviews
Advance praise forV. S. Pritchett: A Working Life "Anyone who admired Pritchett's writing will find Treglown's book astute, incisive (sometimes to the point of being trenchant), and extremely valuable in the effort to hold this great writer's life up to art's defiant reflection." Richard Ford "To V. S. Pritchett, biography was 'a novel without dialogue.' Jeremy Treglown puts the voices back in, with a light touch and a profound appreciation for an immense, glittering body of work. His Pritchett is a delight." Stacy Schiff, author ofVera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) "This is an astonishing achievement. Jeremy Treglown has written a biography of a decent, hardworking, lovable man of which its exigent subject would have approved. Treglown, with his superb biographical skills, undertakes to write of the 'agonies of a happy life . . . a love story as turbulent as most, yet one with a long, deeply happy ending.' Along the way, he shows V. S. Pritchett to have been a journeyman writer who, like Dickens and Mark Twain, transcended the limitations of his profession." Ben Sonnenberg, author ofLost Property