Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me

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  • Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me Book Detail

  • Author : John Sutherland
  • Release Date : 2021-04-15
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 275
  • ISBN 13 : 1474620213
  • File Size : 80,80 MB

Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me by John Sutherland PDF Summary

Book Description: 'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin 'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday Times Monica Jones was Philip Larkin's partner for more than four decades, and was arguably the most important woman in his life. She was cruelly immortalised as Margaret Peel in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and widely vilified for destroying Larkin's diaries and works in progress after his death. She was opinionated and outspoken, widely disliked by his friends and Philip himself was routinely unfaithful to her. But Monica Jones was also a brilliant academic and an inspiring teacher in her own right. She wrote more than 2,000 letters to Larkin, and he in turn poured out his heart to her. In this revealing biography John Sutherland explores the question: who was the real Monica? The calm and collected friend and teacher? The witty conversationalist and inspirational lecturer? Or the private Monica, writing desperate, sometimes furious, occasionally libellous, drunken letters to the only man, to the absent man, whom she could love? Was Monica's life - one of total sacrifice to a great poet - worthwhile? Through his careful reading of Monica's never-before-seen letters, and his own recollections, John Sutherland shows us a new side to Larkin's story, and allows Monica to finally step out from behind the poet's shadow.

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Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me

Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me

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'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin 'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

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Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian a

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

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Selected Letters of Philip Larkin

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin

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Seven hundred of the great poet's letters are collected here offering a moving, instructive portrait of Larken, from his early correspondence with school friend