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This excellent piece of literary history takes as its subject the activities of Connolly and his associates during the years 1939-49, when he edited Horizon, a monthly magazine devoted to the arts. What with the before and after, it is also, in effect, a life of Connolly, and a very good one too. The Author has miraculously captured the mandarin and Byzantine nature of both his protagonist and of the magazine, the most important in the London of its time. His attitude to its volatile, sensitive and brilliant editor is one of complete empathy, his portrait of the man quite possibly the best there now is outside of his own work.
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Well past their prime, the ladies who rent rooms in Amy Doll's house indulge in genteel prostitution with their elderly gentlemen friends in order to pay the rent. How will Amy keep her daughter in ignorance of the scandalous goings-on? A tale poking fun at the English passion for respectability.
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Born in 1951, Michael Shelden is the author of Graham Greene: The Man Within. His bestselling biography Orwell was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, and he is a frequent contributor to the literary pages of the Daily Telegraph.
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- PublisherMinerva
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0749390476
- ISBN 13 9780749390471
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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