Mosaic: Portraits in Fragments [SIGNED]

Michael Holroyd

ISBN 10: 0316725056 / ISBN 13: 9780316725057

Verlag: Little, Brown, London, 2004

Beschreibung

Dust jacket: Light shelf wear. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Cream cloth binding. Very slight tanning to pages, otherwise very clean throughout. Signed by the author (without dedication) to title page. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22 cm). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1210E057

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mosaic: Portraits in Fragments [SIGNED]

Verlag: Little, Brown, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 2004

Einband: Hardback. Printed pages: 283

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Signiert: Signed by Author

Auflage: 1st Edition.

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

Book by Holroyd Michael

Reseña del editor:

This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised me.' In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal - his own family. But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just beginning. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. Mosaic, then, is Michael Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: some of which are pleasant surprises, other more startling. There is the death of the fearsome headmaster at his school, who was murdered by one of the boys after he left: the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist writer Jacques Prevert; and a letter from Margaret Forster about the beauty of his mother, that leads to his remarkable account of a decade-long affair. A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, Mosaic is both a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees, and a fascinating insight into the workings of genealogy.