Cyril Connolly : a life / Jeremy Lewis
1997, First Edition. London : Jonathan Cape. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #446629
ISBN: 0224037102
Physical description; xvii, 653 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-623) and index. Contents; Ancestral voices -- Intimations of Eden -- St Cyprian's -- Aut Colleger aut Nihil -- The dream brother -- Pop and the permanent adolescent -- Blokey Balliol -- Minehead and after -- In limbo -- Uncle Baldhead and the affable hawk -- Yeoman's row and the sea lord's daughter -- A young Beethoven with spots -- Jeannie -- Living for pleasure -- Mr Mossbross goes to Spain -- Enemies of promise -- New horizons -- Te Palinure Petens -- Paging Mr. Smartiboots -- Oak coffin -- E Arrivato Weidenfeld -- Bushey lodge -- Eastbourne revisited. Subjects; Connolly, Cyril 1903-1974. Connolly, Cyril (1903-1974) Biographies. Connolly, Cyril. Connolly, Cyril 1903-1974 Biography. 1900-1999. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. Editors Great Britain ; Biography. Critics Great Britain ; Biography. Authors, English. Critics. Editors. Intellectuals Great Britain ; Biography. Great Britain.
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