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LORD BERNERS
THE LAST ECCENTRIC |
| By: |
Sam Leith, Mark Amory (Editor) |
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Electronic book text |
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£11.66 |
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| ISBN 10: |
057128728X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571287284 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
4 October, 2012 |
| Description: |
Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in the author's words "The Last Eccentric". This book tells his story. |
| Synopsis: |
Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in Mark Amory's words "The Last Eccentric", famously dyeing the pigeons at his house, Faringdon, in vibrant colours, and, for a time, having a giraffe as a pet and tea companion. His literary and artistic milieu was glittering: Stravinsky, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Siegfried Sassoon, John Betjeman, the Sitwells, Harold Nicolson, Frederick Ashton and Gertrude Stein - they all belonged to it. In fiction, he was famously portrayed as Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love". "As social history and a chronicle of a mad-cap English eccentric this long awaited, much needed and beautifully written book is, to use a simple cliche, indispensable". (Alexander Waugh, "Literary Review"). "In Amory, this engaging character has found the ideal biographer. Getting the exact measure of its subject throughout, written in a dry, wittily ironic prose ...the biography offers of sheer bliss".(Gilbert Adair, "Sunday Times"). |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber Finds |
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Non-returnable |
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