Review:
'The letters show an impressive blend of honesty and self-humour, besides a frequent Orwellian excellence of plain English prose ... and I hope that one day Mr Chaney will consider publishing parts of them.' --John Fowles, introduction to The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
'G.B. Edwards was a cryptic and mystifying man, a writer with rare and sometimes perverse gifts, whose character mixed elements of the rascal and of the recluse, who yet produced one astounding classic, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. In his last years he gave his trust and affection to Edward Chaney, whose matchless enthusiasm, perseverance and insight make him the best possible biographer of this puzzling misfit Guernseyman.' --Richard Davenport-Hines
[Professor Chaney has] 'written a work of considerable research and scholarship ... This is a remarkable book which sets out to show us that the half-forgotten Gerald Edwards, author of a single magnum opus, should (like Lampedusa) be acknowledged as one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Writing with skill and conviction, calling on some impressive witnesses (in particular John Stewart Collis) to give evidence, Chaney makes a powerful case that will surprise and impress readers today.' --Sir Michael Holroyd
About the Author:
Edward Chaney is the Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts at Southampton Solent University, Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities and Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was an art student when he met Gerald Edwards but went on to do a PhD at the Warburg Institute in London and taught at Pisa University for six years. He has published numerous books, specialising in the history of collecting, the Grand Tour and 20th century British art. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and in 2003 was made a Commendatore of the Italian Republic.
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