{"product_id":"9781408857663","title":"Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett","description":"Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates\u003cbr\u003eBeckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in\u003cbr\u003ethe early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into\u003cbr\u003ethe multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography\u003cbr\u003ethrows new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, the\u003cbr\u003epsychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial\u003cbr\u003erelationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett's\u003cbr\u003esix-month visit to Germany as the Nazi's tightened their grip.;The book\u003cbr\u003eincludes unpublished material on Beckett's personal life after he chose\u003cbr\u003eto live in France, including his own account of his work for a\u003cbr\u003eResistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his\u003cbr\u003eretreat into hiding.;Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed\u003cbr\u003eto the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with\u003cbr\u003ethe controversial success of \"Waiting for Godot\" in 1953, and\u003cbr\u003eculminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in\u003cbr\u003e1969.;James Knowlson is the general editor of \"The Theatrical Notebooks\u003cbr\u003eof Samuel Beckett\".","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152937533680,"sku":"9781408857663","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408857663_p0.jpg?v=1763719058","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408857663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}