A Distant Prospect - Couverture souple

Berners, Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753810166 ISBN 13 : 9780753810163

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2000

Synopsis

A Distant Prospect is the second volume of Lord Berners'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 Lord 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. '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

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: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0753810166
• ISBN 13: 9780753810163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible