Description
| Product ID: | 9780571239108 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica |
| Authors: | Author: Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly two thousand letters, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship. 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 and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet''s death in 1985. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-09-01 |