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Gilbert Adair

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Name: Gilbert Adair
Birth Date: December 29, 1944
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Gilbert Adair
1,733 words, approx. 6 pages
Gilbert Adair is probably best known for his writing in several national magazines and newspapers (including The Guardian, The Telegraph, and Esquire), especially the weekly "Scrutiny" column he wrote for the The Sunday Times between 1992 and 1996. His...


Quotations
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Gilbert Adair Quotes
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In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Gilbert Adair Information
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Gilbert Adair (born December 29, 1944 in Edinburgh) is an author, film critic, and journalist. He won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
Murder on the moor in the footsteps of Agatha ; The Act of Roger Murgatroyd By Gilbert Adair FABER & FABER [pound]12.99 (286pp)
11/17/2006: 500 words, approx. 2 pages
Gilbert Adair has toyed with crime fiction before: A Closed Book can be read as his take on the psychological thriller. Now he turns his attention to the Mayhem Parva whodunnit. The scene is a house party at ffolkes Manor on snowbound Dartmoor in...
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The Independent - London
BOOKS REVIEW : Scornful lions and Milton On His Glaucoma A VOID George Perec trans. Gilbert Adair Harvill, pounds 15.99
01/04/1995: 658 words, approx. 2 pages
Goggle-eyed and dishevelled, looking like a cross between Gustav Mahler, John the Baptist and Ken Dodd, George Perec inhabited those ancient fault lines of playfulness and subversion zigzagging across the ordered surface of French literature. Dur ing hisshort life (he died aged 46 in...
 


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