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This memoir by novelist, biographer, screenwriter and editor, Nicholas Mosley, describes his professional life dealing with words and his struggle with the paradox of trying to get at reality through writing. He traces his colourful life in a variety of settings across the world, from the West Indies to the House of Lords. He tells of his career as author of "Catastrophe Practice" - the last volume of which won the Whitbread Prize in 1990 - and also of a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley.
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"Nicholas Mosley is himself an intellectual of a high order..." -- Nigel Nicolson, LA Times
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Born in London, Mosley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford and served in Italy during the Second World War, winning the Military Cross for bravery. He succeeded as 3rd Baron Ravensdale in 1966 and, on the death of his father on 3 December 1980, he also succeeded to the Baronetcy. His father, Sir Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and was a supporter of Benito Mussolini. Sir Oswald was arrested in 1940 for his antiwar campaigning, and spent the majority of World War II in prison. As an adult, Nicholas was a harsh critic of his father in "Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933-1980" (1983), calling into question his father's motives and understanding of politics. Nicholas' work contributed to the 1998 Channel 4 television programme titled 'Mosley' based on his father's life. At the end of the mini-series, Nicholas is portrayed meeting his father in prison to ask him about his national allegiance. Mosley began to stammer as a young boy, and attended weekly sessions with speech therapist Lionel Logue in order to help him overcome the speech disorder. Mosley says his father claimed never really to have noticed his stammer, but feels Sir Oswald may have been less aggressive when speaking to him than he was towards other people as a result.
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0436201992
- ISBN 13 9780436201998
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages345
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription., 345 pages clean and tight. AS NOVELIST, BIOGRAPHER, screenwriter, editor, Nicholas Mosley's professional life has been concerned with words. Yet he has constantly been troubled by the old paradox: if by definition fiction is untrue, and biography never complete, is there a form that will enable a writer to get at the truth of a life? In the exactly titled Efforts at Truth he holds up to scrutiny his own life and work, but examines them as a curious observer, fascinated by the constant interaction of reality and the written word. As a life, it has been colourful, in settings ranging from the West Indies to a remote Welsh hill farm, from war action in Italy to battles with Hollywood moguls, from the Colony Room to the House of Lords. In print, the range has been as wide: editor of a controversial religious magazine, author of the acclaimed but famously difficult novel series Catastrophe Practice, translator of his own work into film with Joseph Losey and John Frankenheimer, biographer of his father Oswald Mosley, and, in 1990, winner of the Whitbread Prize with Hopeful Monsters. Here Nicholas Mosley places under the microscope a life in letters of a rich variety, and traces the role of letters in that life: he brings the unblinking probing of a scientist to bear on the workings of the writer's imagination. The result is constantly stimulating, frequently startling, and always cheerfully unorthodox. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 133259
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