This, the second volume of Alan Ross's autobiography, deals with
his postwar life as cricket correspondent, publisher, man of
letters and racehorse owner. The narrative is richly peopled:
Johnny Minton, Keith Vaughan, Agatha Christie, Gavin Maxwell,
Wilfred Thesiger, Cyril Connolly, T. C. Worsley, William Plomer,
Terence Rattigan, William Sansom are just some who are memorably
characterized.
William Boyd has written of Alan Ross, 'He was the opposite of
parochial, his interests were wide and not elitist, his enthusiasms
were carefully hedonistic. He was a very fine writer of prose - his
two volumes of memoirs are small classics - and his poetry is
limpid and evocative.' As a beguiling bonus, each chapter of
Coastwise Lights is eked out with a small and apt selection of his
poems.
The first autobiographical volume, "Blindfold Games," is also
available in Faber Finds as will be many other of his titles.
'A true celebration of friendship and talent as well as the
sports - football, cricket, horse-racing - which have engaged him
in the last four decades.' Philip Oakes, "New Statesman"
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'His obvious affection for the friends who flit through this
beautifully written sketchbook is masked by a writer's curiosity
and detached amusement.' Euan Cameron, "Independent"
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'A fascinating history of metropolitan literary life from the
end of the war.' Chris Peachment, "The Times"
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