Paul West (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Paul West is a remarkably prolific novelist whose literary interests also include poetry, criticism, and other nonfiction. In addition to his books of verse, Poems (1952), The Spellbound Horses (1960), and The Snow Leopard (1964), West has published memoirs: I, Said the Sparrow (1963) recounts his childhood in Derbyshire; Words for a Deaf Daughter (1969), one of West’s most popular works, poignantly relates the experiences of his deaf daughter, Mandy; and Out of My Depths: A Swimmer in the Universe (1983)...

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