Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and the Financial Times
A completely fresh view of one of the most giftedâand fascinatingâwriters of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited
Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as âthe greatest novelist of my generation,â and in recent years Waughâs reputation has only grown. Now, half a century after Waughâs death in 1966, with Evelyn Waugh, Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that is both authoritative and full of new information, some of it sensational.
Drawing on extensive unseen primary sources, Eadeâs book sheds new light on many of the key phases and themes of Waughâs life: his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father; his formative homosexual affairs at Oxford; his unrequited love for various Bright Young Things; his disastrous first marriage; his momentous conversion to Roman Catholicism; his unconventional yet successful second marriage; his checkered wartime career; and his shattering nervous breakdown. Along the way, we come to understand not only Waughâs complex relationship with the aristocracy, but also the astonishing power of his wit, and the love, fear, and loathing that he variously inspired in others. Waugh was famously difficult, and Eade brilliantly captures the myriad facets of his character, even as he casts new light on the novels that have dazzled generations of readers.
Categories:
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Historical
- Europe
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Historical
Publisher : Picador
Author : Eade, Philip
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2017-10-10
Number Of Pages : 403
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1250143292
ISBN-13 : 9781250143297
Item weight : 1.1 lb
Dimensions : 1.26 in x 5.71 in x 8.98 in
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