Lord Berners
Mark Amory(Author)
Pimlico (Publisher)
Published on 3. June 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7126-6578-0 (ISBN)
Description
Composer, writer, painter and eccentric millionaire, Lord Berners led a life filled with music, art, travel and high society. Stravinsky, Picasso and Cocteau; the Sassoons, the Betjemans and the Sitwells; Harold Nicolson, Frederick Ashton and Gertrude Stein all were his friends and many came to stay at his house near Oxford, where the pigeons were dyed all colours of the rainbow and Salvador Dali played the piano in the swimming pool. 'A serious and deeply thoughtful attempt to perform two difficult tasks to search out the underlying psychology of this enigmatic man, and to assess his place in the cultural history of early 20th century Europe. . His life, alternatively silly, sparkling and touching, has waited nearly fifty years for a biography to do it justice. This was a book worth waiting for. ' Sunday Telegraph.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Weight
394 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7126-6578-0 (9780712665780)
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Person
Mark Amory was born in 1941 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He has been a publisher, journalist, theatre and film critic, ghost (for the Kabaka of Buganda), biographer (Lord Dunsany, 1972) and edited the letters of Evelyn Waugh (1980) and Ann Fleming (1985). He is the literary editor of the Spectator and is married with three daughters. He lives in London and Somerset.