num_pages: 600
description: "A triumphant success. . . . His prose is confident, clear . . . occasionally perfect." ―Dennis Potter, The Times (London) "It is impossible to suppose that this ‘Life' will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years."―John Rothenstein, New York Times "Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . [Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person."―George Steiner, The New Yorker 30 b/w and 4 color photographs
language: English
title: Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
titlecomplete: Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
characters: Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington
genres: History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 227
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Essai
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company