Alms For Oblivion Volume II - Couverture souple

Raven, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099561336 ISBN 13 : 9780099561330

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on. Volume 2 includes: "The Judas Boy", "Places Where they Sing", "Sound the Retreat", and "Come Like Shadows".

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Author Simon Raven was perhaps known as much for his controversial behaviour as for his writing. He grew up reading and studying the classics, translating them from Greek and Latin into English and vice-versa. He was expelled from Charterhouse School in 1945 for homosexual activities, having first been seduced at the age of nine by the games master (an experience he described as giving 'immediate and unalloyed pleasure") and went on to join the army. Following his National Service, Raven attended King's College, Cambridge to read English. Raven later returned to the army but was asked to resign rather than face a court-martial for 'conduct unbecoming.' It was at this point that he turned his focus to writing. The publisher Anthony Blond paid Raven to write and to move away from London to Deal, Kent. His works span a multitude of genres including fiction, drama, essays, memoirs and screenplays. Simon Raven died in May 2001, having written his own epitaph: "He shared his bottle - and, when still young and appetising, his bed."

Quatrième de couverture :

'A ready made cult waiting to be discovered' Spectator

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and always read on.

Volume II: The Judas Boy, Places Where they Sing, Sound the Retreat and Come Like Shadows

See also: Alms For Oblivion Volume III

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099561336
• ISBN 13: 9780099561330
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 848