The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit - Softcover

Motion, Sir Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571296343 ISBN 13: 9780571296347

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2012

Synopsis

Andrew Motion's first work of biography won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987.

'A biographical triumph.' Observer

'The story of the three Lamberts is as cruel and horrifying as any Greek tragedy... Its portrayal of the way in which the Lamberts instinctively yet unintentionally assisted in the destruction of their own offspring makes for truly compulsive reading.' Harpers and Queen

'Motion's project is not just to tell the story of passing generations, which he does very readably and well, but necessarily also to describe and evaluate aspects of English culture - revivalist painting, classical music in the Twenties and Thirties, the foundation of a native ballet, pop music in the Sixties - which he does with considerable confidence and resource.' London Review of Books

About this title

Book Description:

Newly jacketed reissue of Motion's award-winning biography of this high-achieving yet tragically self-destructive family.

About the Author:

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571296343
• ISBN 13: 9780571296347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416