"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."âBen Macintyre, New York Times Book Review
Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd pastâguided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their livesâgradually yields clues to a constellation of startling events and eccentric characters: a slow decline from English nobility on one side, a dramatic Scandinavian ancestry on the other. Fires, suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, unconsummated longings, and the rumor of an Indian tea fortune permeate this wry, candid memoir, "part multiple biography, part autobiography, but principally an oblique investigation of the biographer's art" (New York Times Book Review). "[A] perfect example of a memoir that entrances me."âKatherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe "[O]ne of the few [biographers] who can convey what makes ordinary as well as extraordinary mortals live in our minds."âLos Angeles Times
Categories:
- History
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Author : Holroyd, Michael
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2001-05-17
Number Of Pages : 342
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0393321746
ISBN-13 : 9780393321746
Item weight : 1.13 lb
Dimensions : 0.86 in x 5.5 in x 8.5 in
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