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Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of the century. And yet he was never interested in exploring his own family's history. His parents' deaths in the 1980s, however, left an unexpected vacuum, which he gradually felt the need to fill with their stories, his narrative. The result is part detective story, part family saga and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery.
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"Basil Street Blues is an extraordinary piece of work...a classic piece of English autobiography" (D. J. Taylor Times Literary Supplement)
"Fine, funny and touching...[Basil Street Blues is] an original, unforgettable book" (Victoria Glendinning Daily Telegraph)
"A brilliant writer blessed with prefect pitch...there could be no more sympathetic and funny companion with whom to go into the jungle of genealogy than Holroyd" (Mail on Sunday)
"Michael Holroyd is one of the greatest biographers of our age... [Mosaic] is an absolute tour de force of brilliant writing" (Lynn Barber Daily Telegraph)
"[Mosaic] is marvellous because the autobiographer is in fact a master-biographer" (Diana Athill Literary Review)
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"Fine, funny and touching...[Basil Street Blues is] an original, unforgettable book" (Victoria Glendinning Daily Telegraph)
"A brilliant writer blessed with prefect pitch...there could be no more sympathetic and funny companion with whom to go into the jungle of genealogy than Holroyd" (Mail on Sunday)
"Michael Holroyd is one of the greatest biographers of our age... [Mosaic] is an absolute tour de force of brilliant writing" (Lynn Barber Daily Telegraph)
"[Mosaic] is marvellous because the autobiographer is in fact a master-biographer" (Diana Athill Literary Review)
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for A Strange Eventful History
Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family's history until the death of his parents in the 1980s. Then, faced with a sudden vacuum, he felt a desire to fill it with the stories of their lives.
Basil Street Blues, the first of his volumes of memoir, is part detective story, part family memoir and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery which is both startlingly comic and profoundly moving. In his follow-up volume, Mosaic, he delves deeper into his family history. Witty, touching and wry, Mosaic shows the strange interconnectedness of our lives, and how other people's stories, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences.
These two volumes - published together for the first time here - form an extraordinary piece of writing, and an enthralling lesson in identity and perspective for both author and reader.
'Fine, funny and touching...[Basil Street Blues is] an original, unforgettable book' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph
'Basil Street Blues is an extraordinary piece of work...a classic piece of English autobiography' D. J. Taylor, Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0753197146
- ISBN 13 9780753197141
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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