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First Childhood
Lord Berners
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Description for First Childhood
Paperback.
In First Childhood Lord Berners demonstrates the neat precision of wit and style which typifies his musical compositions. This is a subtle work of art and a masterpiece of understatement. Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book to be enchanting from cover to cover.' - Daily Mail'
In First Childhood Lord Berners demonstrates the neat precision of wit and style which typifies his musical compositions. This is a subtle work of art and a masterpiece of understatement. Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book to be enchanting from cover to cover.' - Daily Mail'
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Turtle Point Press United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Chappaqua, United States
ISBN
9781885983312
SKU
V9781885983312
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Lord Berners
Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, novelist, painter, memoirist, conspicuous aesthete and the real life character on whom Nancy Mitford based Lord Merlin in The Pursuit of Love. This versatile peer has been called the English Satie. His ballets have been choreographed by Balanchine and Ashton.
Reviews for First Childhood
"Quietly remarkable autobiography alive with unforgotten terrors, unforgiven indignities"...Alan Hollingsworth