Brendan King

Standard Name: King, Brendan

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Literary responses Beryl Bainbridge
Publishers rejecting the work had called the central characters repulsive beyond belief.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Susannah Clapp has called it as powerful an account of corruption as Henry JamesThe Turn of the Screw . . . . sleek but...
Literary responses Beryl Bainbridge
She was six times in several decades short-listed for the Booker Prize: for instance, for The Dressmaker (September 1973), An Awfully Big Adventure (1989), and According to Queeney. She laid the wreath and gave...
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
BB 's final novel, The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress, was published, completed by Brendan King , who added no new material but used the notebooks Bainbridge was working on when she died.
Bragg, Melvyn. “Always leave them wanting more”. The Observer, p. 43.
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Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
At the time of her death BB was working on a novel set at the time of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy , to be entitled The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress. She...

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Texts

King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016.
Bainbridge, Beryl, and Brendan King. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress. 2011.