1989, ISBN: 9781852910570

United Kingdom: Lennard Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 1852910577 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on… Mehr…

United Kingdom: Lennard Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 1852910577 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Slight bump. No ownership marks. Photographs. 138 pages clean and tight. Sebastian Peake was born into one of the most talented families of British literature. His father was Mervyn Peake, creator of the Gormanghast trilogy, unparalleled in its dark, gothic imagination; draughtsman, with a gift which approached Goya and Redon; and official war artist, both at the liberation of Belsen and at the execution of Nazi war criminals. Such a household was far from humdrum. Sebastian accepted as usual the visits of literary figures as diverse as Graham Greene, Louis Macneice and Quentin Crisp. But if this up-bringing escaped the mundane, it did not escape the painful. Sebastian was sent to a rigorous Catholic boarding school where punishments were designed to humiliate. On one occasion a Brother compelled him to wear branches of holly under his shirt as a penance for Easter. All the while Sebastian's devotion to his father was unwavering, and he allows us an unprivileged insight into Mervyn Peake's artistry, both as a writer and painter. Himself the subject of some of his father's most exquisite drawings, Sebastian records the conversations he had during his childhood and adolescence with a parent whose creative talent was irrepressible and whose personality was sometimes hard to fathom. Sebastian Peake is unflinching in his depiction of his own failures to match up to his father and to achieve his father's expectations for him, and in his candid and affectionate study of life with a genius he shows both the advantages and the traumas of being the son of a complex artist. Never more moving than when it describes Sebastian's relationship with his dying father, this book is a very personal investigation of the pleasures and pressures of being the child of a great talent. ., Lennard Publishing, 1989, 3<

1990, ISBN: 9781852910570

Queen Anne Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 1990-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1 kg, Verkaufsrang: 213587, Gegenwartsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, B… Mehr…

Queen Anne Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 208 Seiten, Publiziert: 1990-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1 kg, Verkaufsrang: 213587, Gegenwartsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, 20. Jahrhundert, Moderne, Bewegungen & Epochen, Literaturgeschichte & -kritik, Einzelne Künstler, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Queen Anne Press, 1990<

1989, ISBN: 1852910577

Gebundene Ausgabe

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[EAN: 9781852910570], Near Fine, [PU: Lennard Publishing, Oxford, England], LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, Biography & Autobiography|General, Jacket, 1st priinting; dj w/unclipped price; 138 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 vo<

1990, ISBN: 1852910577

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