A Curious Friendship
Autor Anna Thomassonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2016
'I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy Strong
In the winter of 1924, Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives.
Set against a backdrop of the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War, and with an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, Anna Thomasson brings to life, for the first time, the fascinating, and curious, friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.
'Reverent and sympathetic, and often fascinating' Lesley McDowell, Independent
'Provides a window on to a fascinating world, and the story is narrated with elegant verve' Lara Feigel, Guardian
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1447245547
Pagini: 324
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Main Market Ed.
Editura: Pan Macmillan
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Descriere
The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home became a sanctuary for Whistler and other brilliant and beautiful younger men—Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton—for whom she was "all the muses." The story is set against the backdrop of a period that spanned the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of World War II. With an extraordinary cast, from the Royal Family to Tallulah Bankhead, Anna Thomasson's account brings to life, for the first time, the curious, unlikely and fascinating friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.