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Buy this book on-line HOLROYD, MICHAEL: : Mosaic. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.LITTLE BROWN,2004. ISBN 0316725056.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten bold,black biro ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,matt, colour pictorial artwork by Jon Rogers, illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present, minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip.Top edge slightly aged but clean,fore-edges brighter,crisper and cleaner; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,unblemished,cream paper-covered boards with black ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and colour decorated, immaculate endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,2-283pp [paginated] includes preface,6 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w family/portrait photographs between pp144/5; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, critics' reviews,a dedication,contents+ illus lists/tables,acknowledgements and 4pp of four family trees to rear.
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,it was,in fact,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,others more startling.There is 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.Funny,touching,wry and moving,it shows the strange interconnectedness of our family lives,and how other people's stories,however eccentric or extreme,echo our own dreams and experiences.
Michael Holroyd's lives of Hugh Kingsmill,Lytton Strachey,Augustus John and Bernard Shaw have established him as one of the most influential biographers of modern times.His own family biography,
'Basil Street Blues' (1999),was given the greatest number of non-fiction end-of-year critics' choices that year.He is married to the novelist Margaret Drabble.
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