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Mad World - Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead  - Byrne, Paula

Mad World - Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

Author
Byrne, Paula
Price
NZ$17.00
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1
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Description

The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric and compelling as their counterparts in Brideshead Revisited. In this engrossing biography, Paula Byrne takes an innovative approach to her subject, setting out to capture Waugh through those friendships that mattered most to him. Far from the snobbish misanthropist of popular caricature, she uncovers a man as loving and complex as the family that inspired him - a family deeply traumatised when their father was revealed as a homosexual and forced to flee the country. This brilliantly original biography unlocks for the first time the extent to which Waugh's great novel encoded and transformed his own experiences. In so doing, it illuminates the loves and obsessions that shaped his life, and brings us inevitably to a secret that dared not speak its name.

Format
Second hand Paperback
ISBN
9780007243778
Catalog
SKU
44579

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