John Lawton

Unholy Joy: 50 Years On - A Short History of the Profumo Affair (eBook, ePUB)

Including an extract from A Little White Death

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, the Profumo Affair was the biggest British political scandal of 1963. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet spy, followed by his lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of Profumo and damaged the reputation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government.
Here, John Lawton explores how the scandal evolved and the effect it had upon the population of an increasingly liberated Britain.

This went on to become the basis for a novel. A Little White Death has its roots in the Profumo affair, the correspondences will be apparent to the reader... but the 'buds and leaves' are Lawton's fiction.

This edition includes an extract from A Little White Death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press UK
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611859768
• Artikelnr.: 39679399

Autorenporträt

John Lawton worked for Channel 4 for many years, and, among many others, produced Harold Pinter's 'O Superman', the least-watched most-argued-over programme of 90s. He has written seven novels in his Troy series, two Joe Wilderness novels, the standalone Sweet Sunday, a couple of short stories and the occasional essay. He writes very slowly and almost entirely on the hoof in the USA or Italy, but professes to be a resident of a tiny village in the Derbyshire Peak District. He admires the work of Barbara Gowdy, TC Boyle, Oliver Bleeck, Franz Schubert and Clara Schumann - and is passionate about the playing of Maria Joao Pires. He has no known hobbies, belongs to no organisations and hates being photographed.