Simon Schama WORDY Book NEW Hardcover

NEW Books from family run Booksellers. \n\nOur carefully selected titles are in stock and posted in either cardboard packaging or other protective envelopes. As stock holding booksellers, each book is packed by us direct from our shelves.\n\u2018Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall for memory pieces. And informing everything a rich sense of the human comedy and the ways it plays through historical time.\n\n \nIt's also a reflection on writers who have been shamelessly gloried in verbal abundance; the performing tumble of language - those who have especially inspired me - Dickens and Melville; Joyce and Marquez.\u2019 Simon Schama\n\nSir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, po.