Samuel Beckett: Centenary Shadows Hardback LEY25

Welcome to our listing\n\nWe are a brick and mortar shop located in the historic market town of Driffield\nAll our listings are what we have in stock and the photos we use are of the actual item, no stock photos pulled off the internet are used.\nWe have for a sale a nice copy of the following bookA new book, dust jacket crumpled a bit at the top, Outside page edges markedSamuel Beckett, one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth century was rarely photographed, despite the fact that he was extremely interested in the process of photography. In 1969, when it was announced that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, he refused to attend the ceremony, and retreated to Morocco. When he returned to Paris, where he spent most of his adult life, he tended to frequent restaurants and cafes where he would not be recognized. It was in one of these cafes that John Minihan took what became the most famous image of him. John Minihan, an Irish photographer, who lived and .