Wilson A. N.
Wilson A. N. - Confessions A Life Of Failed Promises - Paperback
Wilson A. N. - Confessions A Life Of Failed Promises - Paperback
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Description: When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story - telling the result is A. N. Wilson Stephen Fry Known for his journalism biographies and novels A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life his experience of sexual abuse his catastrophic mistakes in love and his life in Grub Street as a prolific writer. Before he came to London as one of the Best of Young British novelists and Literary Editor of the Spectator we meet another A. N. Wilson. We meet his father the Managing Director of Wedgwood the grotesque teachers at his first boarding school and the dons of Oxford one of whom at the age of just 20, he married the renowned Shakespearean scholar the late Katherine Duncan - Jones. At every turn of this reminiscence Wilson is baffled by his earlier self whether flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood. His chapter on the High Camp seminary which he attended in Oxford is among the funniest in the book. We follow his unsuccessful attempts to become an academic his aspirations to be a Man of Letters and his eventual encounters with the famous including some memorable meetings with royalty. The princesses dons paedophiles and journos who cross the pages are as sharply drawn as figures in his early comic fiction. But there is also a tenderness here in his evocation of those whom he has loved and hurt the most.
Title: Confessions A Life Of Failed Promises
Author(s): Wilson A. N.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781472994820
Pages: 320 Pages, 20 Black And White Photographs Throughout Book
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Memoirs
Description: When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story - telling the result is A. N. Wilson Stephen Fry Known for his journalism biographies and novels A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life his experience of sexual abuse his catastrophic mistakes in love and his life in Grub Street as a prolific writer. Before he came to London as one of the Best of Young British novelists and Literary Editor of the Spectator we meet another A. N. Wilson. We meet his father the Managing Director of Wedgwood the grotesque teachers at his first boarding school and the dons of Oxford one of whom at the age of just 20, he married the renowned Shakespearean scholar the late Katherine Duncan - Jones. At every turn of this reminiscence Wilson is baffled by his earlier self whether flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood. His chapter on the High Camp seminary which he attended in Oxford is among the funniest in the book. We follow his unsuccessful attempts to become an academic his aspirations to be a Man of Letters and his eventual encounters with the famous including some memorable meetings with royalty. The princesses dons paedophiles and journos who cross the pages are as sharply drawn as figures in his early comic fiction. But there is also a tenderness here in his evocation of those whom he has loved and hurt the most.
Title: Confessions A Life Of Failed Promises
Author(s): Wilson A. N.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781472994820
Pages: 320 Pages, 20 Black And White Photographs Throughout Book
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Memoirs
