Basil Street Blues And Mosaic
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Basil Street Blues And Mosaic
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-11-04
Basil Street Blues And Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As read on BBC Radio 4 Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for A Strange Eventful History and winner of the Lifetime Services to Biography Award. 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 a sudden 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 comic and profoundly moving. In his follow-up volume, Mosaic, he delves deeper into his family history. Witty, 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
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: Isis
Release Date : 2002
Basil Street Blues written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by Isis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This, in his fashion, is Michael Holroyd's autobiography, a biography of a biographer, and a continuation of his never-ending love affair with human nature. Part detective story, part family-saga and part an oblique voyage of self discovery, Basil Street Blues is an entrancing story, startlingly funny, profoundly moving; a very English tragic-comedy.
Basil Street Blues Book Club
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: Orbit Books
Release Date : 1999-11-01
Basil Street Blues Book Club written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by Orbit Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-01 with categories.
Basil Street Blues A Family Story
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Basil Street Blues A Family Story written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Michael Holroyd – the most famous biographer in Britain – turns his attention upon himself and his own family in Basil Street Blues (the title comes from the Basil Street Hotel where the author was conceived in the 1930s). Born into a family rich in eccentricity, Holroyd was largely brought up by his grandparents in Maidenhead because his exotic Swedish mother and reserved English father couldn't stand living together. (His grandparents' marriage provided no better model – his grandfather having had a four-year affair with a woman he met at a bus stop before coming back to his grandmother). Towards the end of Holroyd's parents' lives he persuaded them to write their own stories and using the results, plus his own memories and researches he has written this moving and self-revealing book.
Mosaic
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'This is a book about surprises – at any rate, it has surprised me.' In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal – his own family. But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just beginning. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. Mosaic, then, is Michael Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: some of which are pleasant surprises, other more startling. There is the death of the fearsome headmaster at his school, who was murdered by one of the boys after he left: the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist writer Jacques Prevert; and a letter from Margaret Forster about the beauty of his mother, that leads to his remarkable account of a decade-long affair. A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, Mosaic is both a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees, and a fascinating insight into the workings of genealogy.
Basil Street Blues A Memoir
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-10-10
Basil Street Blues A Memoir written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past—guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their lives—gradually yields clues to a constellation of startling events and eccentric characters: a slow decline from English nobility on one side, a dramatic Scandinavian ancestry on the other. Fires, suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, unconsummated longings, and the rumor of an Indian tea fortune permeate this wry, candid memoir, "part multiple biography, part autobiography, but principally an oblique investigation of the biographer's art" (New York Times Book Review). "[A] perfect example of a memoir that entrances me."—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe "[O]ne of the few [biographers] who can convey what makes ordinary as well as extraordinary mortals live in our minds."—Los Angeles Times
Mosaic
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A continuation of the memoir Basil Street Blues follows the murder of a fearsome headmaster, a discovery about the author's Swedish grandmother's identity, and a letter that reveals details about his mother's long-time affair. 13,000 first printing.
Biography An Historiography
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Author : Melanie Nolan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-03
Biography An Historiography written by Melanie Nolan and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-03 with History categories.
Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.
Mosaic
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2004-08-24
Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Holroyd pieces together several remarkable stories to create a wry, touching mosaic of his family, including the murder of his fearsome headmaster and the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of a French anarchist.
Mosaic
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Author : Michael Holroyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Authors, English categories.
'This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised me.'In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal - his own family. But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just beginning. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. Mosaic, then, is Michael Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: some of which are pleasant surprises, other more startling. There is the death of the fearsome headmaster at his school, who was murdered by one of the boys after he left: the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist writer Jacques Prevert; and a letter from Margaret Forster about the beauty of his mother, that leads to his remarkable account of a decade-long affair.
