MODERN CONFESSIONAL WRITING. New Critical Essays.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original boards (hardcover). An excellent near fine copy, the binding square, clean and tight. The contents, with the ownership signature of the acclaimed biographer and translator of Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall in ink on the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Scarce in first edition.

A collection of essays by various authors on modern confessional writing, subjects include the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Helen Fielding's 'Bridget Jones's Diary' and Njabulo Ndebele's 'The Cry of Winnie Mandela', among others.