Island in the Sun a Story of the 1950's - Hardcover

Waugh, Alec

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9997409124 ISBN 13: 9789997409126

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1955

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

About the Author:

Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a British novelist born in London and educated at Sherborne Public School, Dorset. Waugh’s first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public school life that caused some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian Society.

Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the settings for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to make the ’cocktail party’ a regular feature of 1920s social life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
• Publication date: 1955
• ISBN 10: 9997409124
• ISBN 13: 9789997409126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1