Binding: Paperback
Description: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian The Sunday Times and the Financial Times A completely fresh view of one of the most gifted and fascinating writers of our time the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as the greatest novelist of my generation and in recent years Waugh's reputation has only grown. Now half a century after Waugh's death in 1966, with Evelyn Waugh Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that is both authoritative and full of new information some of it sensational. Drawing on extensive unseen primary sources Eade's book sheds new light on many of the key phases and themes of Waugh's life: his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father; his formative homosexual affairs at Oxford; his unrequited love for various Bright Young Things; his disastrous first marriage; his momentous conversion to Roman Catholicism; his unconventional yet successful second marriage; his checkered wartime career; and his shattering nervous breakdown. Along the way we come to understand not only Waugh's complex relationship with the aristocracy but also the astonishing power of his wit and the love fear and loathing that he variously inspired in others. Waugh was famously difficult and Eade brilliantly captures the myriad facets of his character even as he casts new light on the novels that have dazzled generations of readers.
Title: Evelyn Waugh A Life Revisited
Author(s): Eade Philip
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250143297
Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/10/2017
Category: Autobiography: Literary