Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family - Hardcover

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Sehr gut. 482 p.: Ill. Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, unregelmäßiger Vorderschnitt, beiliegend eine Rezension zum Buch, sonst gut und sauber ohne Anstreichungen / Dust jacket lightly rubbed, irregular fore edge, enclosed is a review of the book, otherwise good and clean with no markings. - If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has itand it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on I to become a distinguished publisher and an immensely influential book columnist. He fathered two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both of whom were to become novelists of note (and whom | Arthur, somewhat uneasily, would himself publish); both of whom were to rebel in their own ways against his bedrock Vic- I torianism; and one of whom, Evelyn, was to write a series of immortal novels that will be prized as long as elegance and lethal wit are admired. Evelyn begat, among seven others, Auberon Waugh, who would carry on in the family tradition of literary skill and eccentricity, becoming one of England's most I incorrigibly cantankerous and provocative newspaper columnists, loved and loathed in equal measure. And Auberon begat Alexander, yet another writer in the family, to whom it has fallen to tell this extraordinary tale of four generations of scribbling male Waughs. The result of his labors is Fathers and Sons, one of the most I unusual works of biographical memoir ever written. In this remarkable history of father-son relationships in his family, Alexander Waugh exposes the fraught dynamics of love and strife that have produced a succession of successful authors. Based on the recollections of his father and on a mine of hitherto unseen documents relating to his grandfather Evelyn, the book skillfully traces the threads that have linked father to son across a century of war, conflict, turmoil and change. It is at once very, very funny, fearlessly candid and exceptionally movinga supremely entertaining book that will speak to all fathers and sons, as well as to the women who love them. / Contents Family Tree I Pale Shadows II Midsomer Norton III Golden Boy IV Lacking in Love V Out in the Cold VI Spirit of Change VII In Arcadia VIII No Uplifting Twist IX Happy Dying X Irritability XI Fantasia XII Under Fire XIII Leaving Home XIV My Father To Auberon Augustus Ichabod Waugh Acknowledgements Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780385521505 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 623. Artikel-Nr. 1219367

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