A Particular Friendship - Couverture souple

Bogarde, Dirk

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1448208181 ISBN 13 : 9781448208180

Editeur : Bloomsbury Reader, 2013

Synopsis

A Particular Friendship They were strangers and opposites and never met, and yet they enjoyed a passionate and unusual friendship. In 1967 Dirk Bogarde, then at the height of his fame, received a letter from America from a complete stranger who had once lived in his house. Intrigued, he wrote back to her and thus began a flood of correspondence that ended with her death in 1972. Selected from Dirk Bogarde's letters, A ... Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'London guests staying hate it. Keeps them awake all night they complain. The bleating in the utter stillness. I heal with it, as you did.'

First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship follows Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs

This epistolary collection finds Bogarde at his most honest and touching, engaging in conversation with a woman he has never met and whose only interest in him comes from the simple fact that he now happens to live in a house that she once owned.

These letters provide an insight into the wit and intelligence of a great man without the stifling constraints of other literary forms. It presents us with a platform and a relationship that allows Bogarde to freely reminisce, discuss politics, gossip about those around him and provide razor-sharp cameo portraits of the famous. The correspondences were all written before Bogarde saw himself as an author and stand as a testament to his literary talent, domestic sensibilities, and his unquestionable compassion in sharing so much with a complete stranger.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

They were strangers and opposites and never met, and yet they enjoyed a passionate and unusual friendship.

In 1967 Dirk Bogarde, then at the height of his fame, received a letter from America from a complete stranger who had once lived in his house. Intrigued, he wrote back to her and thus began a flood of correspondence that ended with her death in 1972.

Selected from Dirk Bogarde's letters, A Particular Friendship reveals the unexpected side of a great actor and film star: a man deeply committed to his home, witty, stringent, observant, sometimes depressed by the state of Britain or of his work but always razor-sharp with his pen. Sprinkled with reminiscences, gossip and cameo portraits of the famous, the letters are a tribute to the relationship between two exceptional people.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Reader
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1448208181
• ISBN 13: 9781448208180
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240