Mad world
Subtitle: Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead
By: Paula Byrne.
Publisher: HarperPress
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780007243761
Subjects: Waugh, Evelyn, -- 1903-1966 -- Friends and associates; Waugh, Evelyn, -- 1903-1966; Ligon family; Madresfield Court (England); Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he admitted, of no 'immediate propaganda value'. Instead, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith--an elegy for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. This brilliantly original biography unlocks for the first time the extent to which Waugh's great novel encoded and transformed his own experiences. In so doing, it illuminates the loves and obsessions that shaped his life, and brings us inevitably to a secret that dared not speak its name.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.