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Hidden Wyndham - Life, Love, Letters (Paperback)
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Hidden Wyndham - Life, Love, Letters (Paperback)
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List price R344
Loot Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
You Save R32 (9%)
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Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his
popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known
as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre
with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich
Cuckoos. In Hidden Wyndham, Amy Binns reveals the woman who was the
inspiration for his strong-minded heroines. Their secret love
affair sustained this gentle and desperately shy man through
failure, war, and, ultimately, success. Hidden Wyndham shows how
Wyndham's own disturbing war experiences - witnessing the
destruction of London in the Blitz then as part of the invading
British army in France and Germany - inspired and underlay his
dystopian masterpieces. It provides an insight into the lives of
men and women who refused to live by the oppressive rules of
society in the mid-20th century. Many extracts from his letters are
included, along with his own photographs. "Put your hand on your
heart sometimes, my lovely, and tell yourself that it is mine. An
era had shut up its houses and gone away, perhaps forever. But we
had that little much longer. How cruel the macrocosm, sweet, but
how sweet the microcosm. Oh, my darling."
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