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Chargement... Against the windpar Geoffrey Household
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A somewhat dense and evasive book about Household's very interesting life. It has some of the hallmarks of him at his best -- wit, actually-interesting descriptions of logistics (such as troop movements) -- and some of what I don't like. It's not a must-read on its own, EXCEPT if you also like Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy. It turns out that Household was based in Bucharest and Cairo at about the same time as the Mannings, just as World War II broke out, and moved in the same English-expat world. Incidents that are lightly fictionalized in the Balkan Trilogy are written about factually here. It's plausible that the two writers met, though it's hard to see evidence in either one's books, and it's unlikely they would have enjoyed each other's company. But it's fascinating to read the two books together. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In this fascinating and uniquely colorful autobiography, a twentieth-century master of suspense fiction candidly examines his extraordinary life, times, and art One of the twentieth century's most respected writers of adventure and espionage thrillers, Geoffrey Household penned more than twenty novels and short story collections in a career that spanned more than fifty years--and lived a life as eventful and surprising as his acclaimed, pulse-pounding fiction. In Against the Wind, the author whom the New York Times credits with having "helped to develop the suspense story into an art form" shares his remarkable personal history with candor and wit, while exploring the creative process and his roles as a husband, father, bestselling popular artist, and citizen of his uniquely eventful time. From his years as a student at the University of Oxford to his early career in the cutthroat world of international business and finance to his patriotic service with British intelligence during World War II, with perilous postings in Greece, Romania, and the Middle East that later informed his thrilling fiction, Household evocatively recalls a peripatetic life lived purposefully and often dangerously in some of the most colorful and fascinating regions of the globe. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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