Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography - Softcover

Mosley, Nicholas

9780749396039: Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749396032 ISBN 13: 9780749396039

Publisher: Minerva, 1996

Nicholas Mosley - novelist, biographer, screenwriter and editor - describes his professional life dealing with words and his struggle with the paradox of trying to get at reality through writing. He traces his life in a variety of settings across the world, from the West Indies to the House of Lords, and discusses the writing of his novel series, "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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About the Author:

Nicholas Mosley was born in London on June 25, 1923 and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. His book Hopeful Monsters won the 1990 Whitbread Award. Mosley is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most notably the autobiography Efforts at Truth and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, entitled Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale. He resides in London.

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