Animal magic
Subtitle: a brother's story
By: Andrew Barrow
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780224090599
Subjects: Social life and customs; English Authors; Biography; Nineteen sixties
Description: Animal Magic documents a heady and peripatetic childhood in Lancashire, the Lake District and Wiltshire, misadventures at home and school, and the early working life of the two brothers, on the lower rungs of show business, backstage at Claridge's, and finally in advertising. This spellbinding elegy negotiates love affairs, family tensions, exhibitions, publishers' rejections and precarious living in a flat in Tite Street, Chelsea. Punctuated with excerpts from The Queue and Jonathan's other bizarre and brilliant writings, Animal Magic is a book bursting with humour, wit and pathos.
Notes: Includes bIbliographical references (p. 323-324).