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

Thompson, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1643137727 ISBN 13 : 9781643137728

Editeur : Pegasus Books, 2021

Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of The Six turns her eye to the iconic and enigmatic Nancy Mitford.

Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story.

Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford’s two surviving sisters, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant façade.

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 Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters, and Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life, also available from Pegasus Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1643137727
• ISBN 13: 9781643137728
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible