Fame is the spur - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006165826 ISBN 13 : 9780006165828

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. Hamer's trajectory is mirrored by the rise of the Labour movement in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1930s.

This wonderfully perceptive study of a career politician serves as a telling elegy for the Labour Party.

Biographie de l'auteur

Howard Spring (1889-1965) won worldwide fame with his bestselling novel O Absalom! afterwards reissued as My Son, My Son to avoid a clash with William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! He settled in Cornwall, the setting for books that followed, such as Fame Is the Spur (1940), Hard Facts (1944), and The Houses in Between (1951).

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006165826
• ISBN 13: 9780006165828
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible