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Mad World: Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets Of Brideshead (2009)

by Paula Byrne(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0060881305 (ISBN13: 9780060881306)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harper

review 1: I am not an Evelyn Waugh specialist; but I have enjoyed "The Loved One" and the video versions of "Brideshead Revisited". This book was of interest to me as it intersected with previously read group bio of the Mitford sisters, and others of the "Bright Young Things." This was an author bio interleaved with his own writings. It was also a bit about how an author transforms his experience into quasi-fiction, or even "real" fiction.
review 2: Mad World, maddening book. Some parts were very good, with true insight, but I wearied quickly of the author's seeming preoccupation with the sexuality of every character, and I certainly could have done without the gratuitous and unnecessary detail of some of the anecdotes she included. Honestly, Ms. Byrne, having a hamme... morer does not justify seeing everything as a nail. I finished the book but will not reread it. less

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