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 aristocracy and
what the aristocrats made of him; his insane bravery yet chequered
wartime career; his drug-induced madness; his strangely successful
second marriage; his unconventional attitude to his six children; his
sharp tongue; his devastating wit; the love, fear and loathing that he
variously inspired.
Scrupulously researched and sympathetically
written, this is a sparkling and compelling new biography of one of the
greatest writers of the twentieth century - and one of England's most
mythologised eccentrics.
Källa: Bokförlaget W & N
Boktitel:Evelyn Waugh. A Life Revisited
Författare:Philip Eade
Bokförlag: W&N
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| Philip Eade |
Philip Eade is the author of two highly acclaimed previous biographies, SYLVIA, QUEEN OF THE HEADHUNTERS (2007) and YOUNG PRINCE PHILIP
(2011).
Born in Shropshire and educated at Marlborough and at Bristol
University, where he read History, he now lives in London with his wife
and daughter.
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