If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly
has it--and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son.
The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the
Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family
tradition of medicine. He went on to become a distinguished
publisher and an immensely influential book columnist. He fathered
two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both of whom were to become novelists of
note (and whom Arthur, somewhat uneasily, would himself publish);
both of whom were to rebel in their own ways against his bedrock
Victorianism; and one of whom, Evelyn, was to write a series of
immortal novels that will be prized as long as elegance and lethal
wit are admired. Evelyn begat, among seven others, Auberon Waugh,
who would carry on in the family tradition of literary skill and
eccentricity, becoming one of England's most incorrigibly
cantankerous and provocative newspaper columnists, loved and
loathed in equal measure. And Auberon begat Alexander, yet another
writer in the family, to whom it has fallen to tell this
extraordinary tale of four generations of scribbling male Waughs.
The result of his labors is "Fathers and Sons," one of the most
unusual works of biographical memoir ever written. In this
remarkable history of father-son relationships in his family,
Alexander Waugh exposes the fraught dynamics of love and strife
that has produced a succession of successful authors. Based on the
recollections of his father and on a mine of hitherto unseen
documents relating to his grandfather, Evelyn, the book skillfully
traces the threads that have linked father to son across a century
of war, conflict, turmoil and change. It is at once very, very
funny, fearlessly candid and exceptionally moving--a supremely
entertaining book that will speak to all fathers and sons, as well
as the women who love them.
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