Left Hand Right Hand!: An Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few memoirs command the grandeur and literary audacity of Left Hand Right Hand!, Sir Osbert Sitwell's celebrated five-volume autobiography, the first of which opens with a sweeping portrait of Edwardian aristocratic life, eccentric family dynamics, and the gilded, crumbling world of the English upper classes on the eve of the First World War. With exquisite precision, Sitwell chronicles his privileged yet turbulent childhood — dominated by the towering, maddening figure of his father, Sir George Sitwell — against a backdrop of ancestral homes, Continental travels, and a society blissfully unaware of the seismic changes awaiting it. Sitwell's prose is nothing short of magnificent: baroque in its detail, wickedly satirical in its observations, and suffused with a melancholy tenderness for a vanished world. As one of the celebrated Sitwell literary siblings — alongside Edith and Sacheverell — Osbert writes with the authority of an insider and the sharp eye of an artist, immortalising figures and moments that might otherwise have been lost to time. A landmark of 20th-century British autobiography, this volume leaves the reader hungry to discover how the story, and the century itself, will unfold.
Author: Osbert Sitwell
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few memoirs command the grandeur and literary audacity of Left Hand Right Hand!, Sir Osbert Sitwell's celebrated five-volume autobiography, the first of which opens with a sweeping portrait of Edwardian aristocratic life, eccentric family dynamics, and the gilded, crumbling world of the English upper classes on the eve of the First World War. With exquisite precision, Sitwell chronicles his privileged yet turbulent childhood — dominated by the towering, maddening figure of his father, Sir George Sitwell — against a backdrop of ancestral homes, Continental travels, and a society blissfully unaware of the seismic changes awaiting it. Sitwell's prose is nothing short of magnificent: baroque in its detail, wickedly satirical in its observations, and suffused with a melancholy tenderness for a vanished world. As one of the celebrated Sitwell literary siblings — alongside Edith and Sacheverell — Osbert writes with the authority of an insider and the sharp eye of an artist, immortalising figures and moments that might otherwise have been lost to time. A landmark of 20th-century British autobiography, this volume leaves the reader hungry to discover how the story, and the century itself, will unfold.