Book Review: Obelisk
Neil Pearson's Obelisk, recently published by Liverpool University Press, was highly praised in the December 8th issue of The Guardian:
Neil Pearson's book is a work of enthusiastic bibliographical scholarship, a brief biography, and a series of well-turned pen portraits. . . . Pearson is as adroit a writer as he is watchable an actor. . . . Everyone with an interest in literary history will enjoy Pearson's narrative. His portraits of minor figures such as Marjorie Firminger, who had the misfortune to became infatuated with Wyndham Lewis, are particularly touching and sympathetic.