Serious pleasures
Subtitle: the life of Stephen Tennant
By: by Philip Hoare.
Publisher: H. Hamilton
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Tennant, Stephen.; Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Description: This volume is a biography of British writer and aristocrat Stephen Tennant (1906-1987). The flashy and eccentric Tennant cultivated a life of glamor while accomplishing little professionally during his life; but his beauty and wit dominated his circle of productive companions: Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton, E. M. Forster, the Sitwells, and the Bloomsbury group. The author makes use of Tennant's journals and correspondence, and had the cooperation of Tennant's family and friends to tell the story of an interesting but ultimately sad life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-452) and index.