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Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of the century. This, in his fashion, is his autobiography, and a continuation of his never-ending love affair with human nature. Part detective story, part family saga and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery, Basil Street Blues is an entrancing and elegiac story, startlingly funny and profoundly moving.
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"A wonderful offbeat memoir ... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."
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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 0753197154
- ISBN 13 9780753197158
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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