Philip Eade

Evelyn Waugh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 gifted-and fascinating-writers of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as "the greatest novelist of my generation," and in recent years Waugh's reputation has only grown. Now, half a century after Waugh's 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, Eade's book sheds new light on many of the key phases and themes of Waugh's 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 Waugh's 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador Paper
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781250143297
• ISBN-10: 1250143292
• Artikelnr.: 47398219

Autorenporträt

Philip Eade

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xv
Family Tree
Preface xxv
1. Second Son 1
2. The Sadism of Youth 15
3. Serving Lord Kitchener 30
4. A Lesser Place than Eton 40
5. Watertight Compartments 53
6. All That One Dreams 66
7. His Poor Dead Heart 80
8. Pure as Driven Slush 90
9. Becoming a Man of Letters 103
10. Shevelyn 114
11. A Common Experience, I'm Told 125
12. Perversion to Rome 140
13. The Dutch Girl 150
14. Off to the Forest 170
15. I Can't Advise You in My Favour 184
16. Goodness She is a Decent Girl 200
17. A War to End Waugh 215
18. Head Unbloodied but Bowed 238
19. A Book to Bring Tears 252
20. The Occupation 267
21. Off My Rocker 288
22. Suitably Sequestered 302
23. Decline and Fall 319
Epilogue 333
Notes 337
Select Bibliography 375
Index 383