Buy this book on-line WAUGH, ALEXANDER: : Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a FamilyLONDON.HEADLINE,2004. ISBN 0755312546.
UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy sepia+colour,subject portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Small dent on upper board's top edge,towards it's right-hand corner.Minisculely bumped to both head+foot of spine/backstrip,with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and generally clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Publisher's bright,clean,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, speckled grey endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,2-472pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters,16pp b/w contemporary photographs/ illus,in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp152/3 and pp312/3 respectively,letter to son, acknowledgements,a bibliography and index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a contents list/table,and Waugh
family tree.
The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century.Evelyn Waugh's father was a writer,as was his brother,Alec,and his son, Auberon.In this remarkable history of the father-and-son relationships in his family, Evelyn Waugh's grandson exposes the fraught dynamic that has produced four generations of successful authors from Victorian times to the present day.Based on the recollections of his father Auberon,and on a mine of hitherto unseen documents relating to Evelyn and his close family,Alexander Waugh skilfully traces the threads of influence that have linked father to son across a century of conflict,turmoil and change.Spurred by his own father's untimely death,Alexander Waugh embarked on a search for identity - a quest for the universal laws that have governed fathers and sons through the ages. It led him to the discovery of many startling and unsavoury facts about his forbears and their behaviour towards one another.In this entertaining and critical examination of his eccentric family,Alexander Waugh weaves a tapestry of narrative and thematic richness.
'Fathers and Sons' is much more than a family tale: it is a study of birth and death,of writers and writing,of conforming and rebelling; a frank and intimate memoir, a revealing history and a book about famous men.
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