A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil - Softcover

Pritchett, V. S. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812991834 ISBN 13: 9780812991833

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

Two enchanting memoirs from V. S. Pritchett, available for the first time in a single volume

A Cab at the Door, originally published in 1968, recalls his childhood in turn-of-the-century and World War I London with the urbane subtlety and wry humor that have marked his other works. For the wild and eccentric Pritchett family, life is a series of cabs waiting at the door to transport them to a succession of ten-bob-a-week lodgings, in their flight from creditors and the financial disasters of their father. A Cab at the Door also captures the texture and color of the working-class side of Edwardian England.

Midnight Oil (which Wilfrid Sheed called a "little Rolls Royce of a book" when it came out in 1972) opens in 1921: Pritchett arrives in Paris to commence with a literary career. Gradually, his creative sensibilities emerge as he travels as a reporter to Ireland, Spain, and America. Midnight Oil provides an intimate and precise record of a writer's discovery of himself and his art. "Pritchett is one of the great pleasure-givers in our language," said Eudora Welty.

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About the Author:

Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997) was an extraordinarly prolific and versatile man of letters, widely regarded as one of the greatest stylist in the English language.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0812991834
• ISBN 13: 9780812991833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436