Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in twentieth-century British literature cut as sharp and contradictory a silhouette as Evelyn Waugh — satirist, Catholic convert, social climber, and one of the most brilliantly caustic prose stylists the English language has ever produced. Christopher Sykes, a personal friend and contemporary, chronicles Waugh's remarkable life with privileged intimacy, tracing the arc from his turbulent early years and failed first marriage through the writing of celebrated masterworks such as Brideshead Revisited and Scoop, to his later years consumed by religious devotion, misanthropy, and a darkly comic despair. Sykes brings to his subject both the warmth of friendship and the rigour of a seasoned biographer, presenting an unvarnished portrait of a man whose genius was inseparable from his cruelty, snobbery, and profound inner torment. The result is a biography that illuminates not only the life of one of Britain's greatest novelists but also the social and intellectual landscape of an entire era — and leaves the reader wondering whether Waugh's savage wit was armour, weapon, or wound.
Author: Christopher Sykes
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in twentieth-century British literature cut as sharp and contradictory a silhouette as Evelyn Waugh — satirist, Catholic convert, social climber, and one of the most brilliantly caustic prose stylists the English language has ever produced. Christopher Sykes, a personal friend and contemporary, chronicles Waugh's remarkable life with privileged intimacy, tracing the arc from his turbulent early years and failed first marriage through the writing of celebrated masterworks such as Brideshead Revisited and Scoop, to his later years consumed by religious devotion, misanthropy, and a darkly comic despair. Sykes brings to his subject both the warmth of friendship and the rigour of a seasoned biographer, presenting an unvarnished portrait of a man whose genius was inseparable from his cruelty, snobbery, and profound inner torment. The result is a biography that illuminates not only the life of one of Britain's greatest novelists but also the social and intellectual landscape of an entire era — and leaves the reader wondering whether Waugh's savage wit was armour, weapon, or wound.