Where Did It All Go Right?
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2012
400 pages
978-1-4088-3581-4 (ISBN)
Description
Al Alvarez - poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, and poker player - has for seventy years been hard to categorize.
He is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, THE SAVAGE GOD, and as poetry editor of the OBSERVER, he has known most of the leading poets of the second half of last century. For a time he was an influential critic and his anthology THE NEW POETRY scandalised the literary community.
Much of the liveliness of Alvarez's story is inspired by the ambiguous fate of being an English Jew. Although his family had been settled in London for more than two centuries, being Jewish always made them feel like outsiders.
From public schools to Oxford to the hardscrabble world of freelance writing, Alvarez found time to climb mountains, play poker and write books about these pastimes which are now regarded as classics. WHERE DID IT ALL GO RIGHT? is his memorable, irreverent account of that journey.
He is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, THE SAVAGE GOD, and as poetry editor of the OBSERVER, he has known most of the leading poets of the second half of last century. For a time he was an influential critic and his anthology THE NEW POETRY scandalised the literary community.
Much of the liveliness of Alvarez's story is inspired by the ambiguous fate of being an English Jew. Although his family had been settled in London for more than two centuries, being Jewish always made them feel like outsiders.
From public schools to Oxford to the hardscrabble world of freelance writing, Alvarez found time to climb mountains, play poker and write books about these pastimes which are now regarded as classics. WHERE DID IT ALL GO RIGHT? is his memorable, irreverent account of that journey.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3581-4 (9781408835814)
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Where Did It All Go Right?
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Person
Al Alvarez was the acclaimed writer of POKER also published by Bloomsbury. He died in 2019.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One
- 1 Provenance
- 2 A Day at the Races
- 3 Bertie and Katie
- 4 Myself When Young
- 5 School
- 6 Afloat
- 7 Oxford
- 8 America
- 9 Puppy Love
- 10 Beyond the Gentility Principle
- 11 Under Pressure
- 12 Auden
- Part Two
- 13 The Pleasure Principle
- 14 Australians
- 15 On the Rocks
- 16 The Biggest Game in Town
- 17 A Pact with Mr Shawn
- 18 Other Friends
- 19 Dancing on a Cloud
- 20 Audience of One
- 21 Writing White
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- eCopyright
