A Distant Prospect - Couverture rigide

Berners, Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297643436 ISBN 13 : 9780297643432

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999

Synopsis

'Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am quite incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book enchanting from cover to cover.' Compton Mackenzie, Daily Mail 'First Childhood and A Distant Prospect are quietly remarkable volumes of autobiography. Both books are alive with unforgotten terrors and unforgiven indignities.' Alan Hollinghurst, TLS, March 1998 ''Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to ponder over in plenty behind the mere youthful years. The portraits of his friends are complete portraits, sketched brilliantly in a few strokes.' Tatler A Distant Prospect is the second volume of Lord Berner's perfectly formed, hilarious, and beautifully written memoirs. Berners was a great English eccentric, a composer, novelist, painter and conspicuous aesthete whose friends included Gertrude Stein, Diaghilev and Sitwell. The character of L ord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is based on Lord Berners, who would dip his pigeons into basins of magenta, green and ultramarine so that when released they resembled, Mitford wrote, 'a cloud of confetti in the sky'. These memoirs are classics of their kind.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

See above. Lord Berners was born in 1883 and died in 1950.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0297643436
• ISBN 13: 9780297643432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible