Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh - Couverture souple

Waugh, Auberon

 
9780099746904: Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh

Synopsis

Racist, sadistic, sexist snob? Or gentle, benevolent, tolerant bon viveur? Auberon Waugh's tendency to say the things that people least want to hear and his mastery of the art of vituperation, combined with his use of irony and fantasy, have made him a celebrated columnist. Here he describes his difficult relationship with his distinguished father (the novelist Evelyn Waugh), National Service, his inglorious exit from Oxford, and his 30-year career in journalism, including work on "Private Eye" and "The Spectator".

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A resounding chorus of "Yes, it will!" greeted the long-awaited American publication of the memoirs of the eldest son of Evelyn Waugh and the best-loved practitioner of what he calls "the vituperative arts" in Britain. As enjoyable and outrageous an autobiography as the best of his father's fiction, Will This Do? takes the reader from Waugh's difficult childhood, through his education first at Oxford and then Fleet Street, to his stingingly funny column at the libelous Private Eye.

Biographie de l'auteur

Auberon Waugh is the editor of London's Literary Review and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph. He lives in England.

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9780786705191: Will This Do?: An Autobiography

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0786705191 ISBN 13 :  9780786705191
Editeur : Da Capo Press, 1998
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