The Senecans - Hardcover

Stothard, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715651374 ISBN 13: 9780715651377

Verlag: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2016

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[An] artful blend of fact and fiction... poetically written, supremely stylish -- Emily Gowers * Guardian * Margaret Thatcher and Emperor Nero, two courts across two thousand years. A brilliant, haunting work from a modern master of memoir -- Mary Beard [An] education in the random brutalities and routine betrayals of political life * Times Literary Supplement * Intriguing and beguiling... proves Stothard one of the most avant-garde practitioners of the form * Scotsman on Sunday * This thoughtful and unexpectedly moving memoir... brilliantly captures the excitement of the Thatcher years * Wall Street Journal * Stothard puts his literary knowledge, journalistic skills and classical erudition to powerful use -- Giles Foden Haunting, erudite and beautifully written... it is proudly and defiantly, the very opposite of journalism: a fusion of memoir, history and travelogue -- Tom Holland * Spectator * An intriguing book that is impossible to categorize: ancient history, travelogue, memoir and biography all at once... compelling * The Times *

Reseña del editor

A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of The Times, some sharp questions about his memories of the Thatcher era. During her interview the offices from where he long observed British politics are being flattened by wrecking balls. Forgotten stories return. From the destruction of a collapsing newspaper plant emerge portraits of the Senecans, a Hollywood screen-writer who wrote her speeches, a socialite former socialist who comforted her with flattery, a comic political columnist whom she admired but rarely read and a multi-millionaire film-producer whom she consulted but never acknowledged.The Senecans took their name from their taste for the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a philosopher, courtier and acquirer of massive wealth from the age of the Emperor Nero. Blending memoir with ancient and modern politics in the manner of his acclaimed diaries, On the Spartacus Road and Alexandria, Stothard sheds a sideways light on recent history. In finally identifying his interviewer he also answers questions about his own literary and political journey.

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• Verlag: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0715651374
• ISBN 13: 9780715651377
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304