A. S. J. Tessimond

Not Love Perhaps

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber and Faber ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 52
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 84g
• ISBN-13: 9780571242214
• ISBN-10: 0571242219
• Artikelnr.: 23827595

Autorenporträt

A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) was born in Birkenhead. His education was at Charterhouse, before running away at sixteen, and Liverpool University. On coming to London he worked in bookshops for a time before becoming a copywriter. After avoiding military service in World War II, he later discovered he was unfit for service. An eccentric, he has been well described as a night-lifer, loner and flaneur. He loved women, was always falling in love, but never married. In later life, he became manic-depressive which neither psycho-analysis nor electric shock therapy could cure. He died of brain haemorrhage in his Chelsea flat. Three volumes of verse were published during his lifetime: 'The Walls of Glass' (1934), 'Voices in a Giant City' (1947) and 'Selection' (1958). He was a minor poet but a distinctive one