Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford: The Biography - Couverture souple

Thompson, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747245754 ISBN 13 : 9780747245759

Editeur : Headline Book Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

Drawing on Mitford's highly autobiographical early novels - as well as the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism and the vast body of letters to her sisters, lovers and friends such as Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly - Thompson has put together a portrait of a courageous and contradictory woman: a woman who expressed anti-feminist views while living a life of financial and emotional independence; a woman who appeared quintessentially English but who was only wholly able to be herself once she moved to France; a woman who believed implacably that the best response to life's pain was laughter. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity and huge affection, Laura Thompson, like Mitford, makes her serious points lightly. Eschewing cliches about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan (although nonetheless delving into the forces which politically polarised this family of 'contagiously and competitive' girls) Thompson analyses the contradictions and complexities at the heart of Nancy Mitford's life and work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A writer and freelance journalist, Laura Thompson won the Somerset Maugham award for her first book, THE DOGS, and is also the author of the critically acclaimed biographies of Agatha Christie and Nancy Mitford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Headline Book Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747245754
• ISBN 13: 9780747245759
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible