Evelyn Waugh - Philip Eade
A Life Revisited
KORTE INHOUD
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Excellent ... read this book' LITERARY REVIEW 'An exemplary piece of work' DAILY MAIL 'Meticulous and wildly entertaining' DAILY EXPRESS 'The best single-volume life of the author available' IRISH TIMES Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip Eade takes a fresh look at this famously complex character and tells the full story of his dramatic, colourful and frequently bizarre life: his strained relationship with his sentimental father and blatantly favoured elder brother, and the burning ambition they provoked in him; his formative homosexual love affairs at Oxford; his disastrous first marriage and subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism; his unrequited love for the brightest of the bright young people; his complex interest in the aristocra...
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2017Uitgever: Orion Publishing Group, Limited416 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1780224869ISBN-13: 9781780224862Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback. 404 pp.; 24 plates with illustrations/ photographs.; 20x13 cm. Text in English - As new, see picture 360 [Auteur: Eade, Philip / Evelyn Waugh.] [Uitgever: Weidenfeld & Nicolson] [Jaar: 2017] [Titel: Evelyn Waugh. A Life Revisited.]
