Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
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Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family s history until the death of his parents in the 1980s. Then, faced with an unexpected vacuum, he felt a desire to fill it with the stories of their lives. Basil Street Blues, the first of his volumes of memoir, is part detective story, part family memoir and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery which is both startlingly funny and profoundly moving. In his follow-up volume, Mosaic, he delves deeper into his family history. Funny, touching and wry, Mosaic shows the strange interconnectedness of our lives, and how other people s stories, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences. These two volumes published together for the first time here form an extraordinary piece of writing, and an enthralling lesson in identity and perspective for both author and reader.
Author: Michael Holroyd
Format: Paperback, 576 pages, 131mm x 198mm, 410 g
Published: 2010, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: General
Description
Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family s history until the death of his parents in the 1980s. Then, faced with an unexpected vacuum, he felt a desire to fill it with the stories of their lives. Basil Street Blues, the first of his volumes of memoir, is part detective story, part family memoir and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery which is both startlingly funny and profoundly moving. In his follow-up volume, Mosaic, he delves deeper into his family history. Funny, touching and wry, Mosaic shows the strange interconnectedness of our lives, and how other people s stories, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences. These two volumes published together for the first time here form an extraordinary piece of writing, and an enthralling lesson in identity and perspective for both author and reader.
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic