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| Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis | 
 enlarge | Author: Julian Evans
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Category: Book
List Price: £25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 11474
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 2.1
ISBN: 0224072757
EAN: 9780224072755
ASIN: 0224072757
Publication Date: June 5, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Minor corner and edge rubbing.
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| Customer Reviews:
Norman Lewis September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First rate. Extensively and sympathetically researched. Very readable. Just right for the coming grey,damp weekends.
The semi-invisible man revealed August 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an outstandingly good biography. It is very long, agreed, but it is written superbly well and with great insight so that it becomes a real page-turner.
It peels back the layers of Lewis's contradictory character very objectively while interspersing the details of the man's life with ruminations on the nature of biography and speculations about the motives that drove his messy personal life and perpetual restlessness. Yet it does not descend into cod-psychology or into an apologia or -- despite the author's obvious affection for his subject -- into hagiography. It has obviously been crafted with great care and I have not read a biography I enjoyed so much for a very long time
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