Fault Lines - Couverture souple

Pryce-Jones, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0985905239 ISBN 13 : 9780985905231

Editeur : New Criterion, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones s was the son of Therese "Poppy" Fould-Springer, a very successful and cosmopolitan Franco-Austrian family forced to flee Hitler s unstoppable ascent, and Alan Pryce-Jones, editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He grew up amidst a colourful mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, intellectuals and bons vivants on both sides of the family: the source of the titular fault lines. In his new memoir, David Pryce-Jones traces these fault lines to the late nineteenth century, detailing the lives and marriages of his maternal grandparents, Eugène Fould from Paris and Mitzi Springer from Vienna, as well as his paternal lineage, Harry Pryce-Jones from Wales and the English Vere Dawnay. Out of the story of the union of these two families emerges a remarkable, panoptic view of Europe across the twentieth century. As the young David grows wings and flies away from his privileged but deeply lonely family nest he was to become the literary editor of The Spectator and the Financial Times; a foreign correspondent covering Israel/ the Middle East, and Eastern/ Central Europe; and the author of several books he gets to know many leading intellectuals including Somerset Maugham, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Harold Pinter, V.S. Naipaul, Saul Bellow; art historian Bernard Berenson, historian Martin Gilbert; Bernard Levin; Rebecca West; William Rees-Mogg; and his publisher George Weidenfeld, to name just a few. Fault Lines paints both a human and historical picture of the 20th Century: David s family members far and near in time are described in their complexity and many contradictions, and the international background against which they move also comes to the fore as a testament to the tragic events which were to radically transform Europe and the world.

Revue de presse

One of the most passionate and beguiling books on inheritance since Gosse's Father and Son. This is a story of a family of almost unimaginable wealth and privilege, of an extraordinary life lived across literary and political world, and of a century backlit by war and trauma. It has the candour, a humour and a fierce intelligence that make it a powerful and remarkable book. --Edmund de Waal

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Criterion
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0985905239
• ISBN 13: 9780985905231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible