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Everything To Lose: Diaries, 1945-60

Door Frances Partridge

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#341604-XG24
Titel
Everything To Lose: Diaries, 1945-60
Auteur
Partridge, Frances
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Phoenix
Jaar van uitgave
1985
ISBN10
1857999371
ISBN13
9781857999372
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Ham Spray and Frances's enduring partnership with Ralph are focal points in these engrossing, beautifully written diaries. Here they were surrounded by the Wiltshire downs; here a succession of interesting friends visited and were visited in return: Gerald and Gamel Brenan, Eddy Sackville-West and Raymond Mortimer, and Robert Kee and Janetta Wolley whose dramatic relationship was 'as if electricity had been let loose in the house'. While in London there were visits to Cyril Connolly, lunch at The Ivy with Duncan Grant, David Garnett, Julia Strachey and Clive Bell, followed by meetings of The Memoir Club for those survivors of Bloomsbury. Frances Partridge reveals a life of such warmth, friendship and good fortune that at the close of these diaries it seems almost impossible that death coul... (Lees verder)d rob her of the source of such happiness: Ralph.
Pagina's
383
Conditie
Goed — Name and date on endpaper.
Prijs
€ 8,00

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