The essays in Lasting Impressions have never before appeared in book form and together they make up, in the author's own words, a journey through different countries and different generations. The subjects range from Bruce Chatwin and Salmon Rushdie to Simon de Beauvoir and Bernard Shaw, from Lorca and Flaubert to John Updike and Walker Percy, from P. G. Wodehouse and Molly Keane to Andre Malraux and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Published in the year of 1990, V. S. Pritchett's 90th birthday, Lasting Impressions is a tribute to one of the greatest and best loved writers of our time.
- ISBN10 0394587200
- ISBN13 9780394587202
- Publish Date 19 December 1990 (first published 19 November 1990)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 20 March 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 171
- Language English