Knights, Sarah

Bloomsbury's Outsider

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ISBN 13:
9781448215454
author:
Knights, Sarah
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Bloomsbury Reader
language:
English
Publication Year:
2015
Pages:
632
Dimensions:
15.3 x 2.5 x 23.4 cm
Genre:
Biography, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights, ,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 7 working days
£29.31

Description

David Garnett: A Life of Contrasts This biography presents a clear-sighted account of David Garnett, a figure at the centre of literary London in the era of the Bloomsbury Group. Trained as a scientist, Garnett worked as a novelist and wrote exquisite prose, with works such as Lady into Fox and Aspects of Love adapted into ballet and musical. Garnett's life was marked by contradictions, from his free love enthusiasm to his marriage, and from his work in British intelligence during the Second World War to his loathing of literary criticism. Born into the Victorian period, Garnett's life spanned two World Wars, the Swinging Sixties, and beyond, with a childhood that took him from pre-Revolutionary Russia to Indian Nationalists in London and carefree Neo-Paganism. With unprecedented access to Garnett's papers, author Sarah Knights offers a nuanced and balanced portrayal of this complex figure, one who defied categorisation and pushed the boundaries of his own contradictions.

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