- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407015514
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 832
Semi-Invisible Man
The Life of Norman Lewis
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407015514
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 832
Evans has produced not only a highly enjoyable and engaging portrait but also an affectionate one...what a triumph
Sunday Times
Highly informative, painstaking and devoted
Evening Standard
Lewis's admirers can be grateful that his reputation has been entrusted to such a nuanced sleuth...Norman Lewis, the finest travel writer of his generation, has been admirably served by this all-seeing life
Observer
A wonderful book - almost as intelligent, stimulating and gripping as its subject
Sara Wheeler, Guardian
Julian Evans does his extraordinary story justice in this exhaustive and sensitive biography
Literary Review
An excellent literary biography about one of the truly outstanding writers of our time
Patrick Marnham, Daily Mail
A profound and stimulating biography
Independent
Astute and fair, Evans handles Lewis's dark side and contradictions very well, and succeeds eminently in his intention of sending us back to Lewis's books, at the same time showing how 'his life and work are inseparable
Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph