Olivia Manning: A Woman at War

by Deirdre David

Book Overview

Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the time she left Portsmouth for London in the mid-1930s determined to become a famous writer, through her wartime years in the Balkans and the Middle East, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198728581
• ISBN13: 9780198728580
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"