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Loading... Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour (1968)by Frances Donaldson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour is a light, highly readable memoir of the author's experiences as the friend and neighbor of one of Britain's more remarkable 20th century writers. It's a bit on the gossipy, colloquial side, but it's fun and makes Waugh sound like fun (and a pain-in-the-behind). What makes it particularly interesting is that the author was an avowed Socialist, which Waugh was definitely not, so you are looking at him from a completely different point of view than if the author were one of Waugh's fellow Catholic travellers. Not a book for those looking for serious research, but if you want to know what Waugh the man was like, it's a good place to start. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In his lifetime, Evelyn Waugh's personality and his attitude to the post-war world aroused almost as much controversy as his works did admiration. It is with Evelyn Waugh the man as she knew him that Frances Donaldson is principally concerned. His own autobiography covered the first 25 years of his life. The perceptive, affectionate and often vividly illuminating study starts in 1948 and describes their various meeting until his death in 1966. Frances Donaldson describes the writer as family man, friend, host and country neighbour. We also see him living through the alarming experience which he so brilliantly transposed into the ordealof Gilbert pinfold, winning his libel action against Nancy Spain, visiting his children at school, shopping for antiques and writing letters and characteristically crisp and succinct postcards. The man who emerges from these pages will amaze and delight those who admired his work but did not know him personally. No library descriptions found. |
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