Closing Times: Recollections Of Julian Maclaren-Ross, W.R. Rodgers, Louis Macneice, Enid Starkie, Joyce Cary, Dylan Thomas, Itzik Manger
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the smoky haze of post-war London and Oxford, a remarkable cast of literary figures drank, argued, and burned with creative fire — and Dan Davin was there to witness it all. Closing Times is a rich collection of personal memoirs in which Davin chronicles his intimate encounters with seven towering figures of mid-twentieth-century letters: the flamboyant Julian Maclaren-Ross, the Irish poet W.R. Rodgers, the melancholic Louis MacNeice, the formidable scholar Enid Starkie, the novelist Joyce Cary, the mercurial Dylan Thomas, and the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger. Written with the warmth of a true insider, these recollections capture not just the personalities of their subjects, but the vibrant, booze-soaked, intellectually charged world they all inhabited together. Davin, himself a distinguished New Zealand-born novelist and Oxford University Press editor, writes with a prose style that is at once elegiac and acutely observant, balancing anecdote and literary insight in equal measure. The result is an invaluable portrait of a lost Bohemian era — a world of pubs, manuscripts, and midnight conversations that shaped some of the most enduring voices in English literature. For anyone captivated by the lives behind the literature, Closing Times raises one irresistible question: what other secrets were exchanged before last orders were called?
Author: Dan Davin
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the smoky haze of post-war London and Oxford, a remarkable cast of literary figures drank, argued, and burned with creative fire — and Dan Davin was there to witness it all. Closing Times is a rich collection of personal memoirs in which Davin chronicles his intimate encounters with seven towering figures of mid-twentieth-century letters: the flamboyant Julian Maclaren-Ross, the Irish poet W.R. Rodgers, the melancholic Louis MacNeice, the formidable scholar Enid Starkie, the novelist Joyce Cary, the mercurial Dylan Thomas, and the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger. Written with the warmth of a true insider, these recollections capture not just the personalities of their subjects, but the vibrant, booze-soaked, intellectually charged world they all inhabited together. Davin, himself a distinguished New Zealand-born novelist and Oxford University Press editor, writes with a prose style that is at once elegiac and acutely observant, balancing anecdote and literary insight in equal measure. The result is an invaluable portrait of a lost Bohemian era — a world of pubs, manuscripts, and midnight conversations that shaped some of the most enduring voices in English literature. For anyone captivated by the lives behind the literature, Closing Times raises one irresistible question: what other secrets were exchanged before last orders were called?