Anthony Cronin: Samuel Beckett [1999] paperback Condition:New German realism

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Anthony Cronin: Samuel Beckett [1999] paperback Condition:New German realismIntensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a writer. Cronin explores how the sporty schoolboy of solid Protestant bourgeois stock became a prizewinning student at Trinity, flirted with scholarship, and, in Paris, found