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The Early Life of James McBey - An Autobiography (Paperback, Main)
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The Early Life of James McBey - An Autobiography (Paperback, Main)
Series: Canongate Classics
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This book is an autobiographical account of the early years of
James McBey, the self-taught boy from a humble north-east village
who became one of Scotland's most successful and celebrated
artists. Writing with charismatic frankness and realism, McBey
describes his passionate desire to be an artist, from his first
etchings (printed with the help of an old mangle) to the moment
when he left a stultifying job to strike out for Holland to create
a life of his own. McBey's journey was not an easy one. Poverty,
ignorance, his family's indifference, the petty routines of an
Aberdeen bank, his mother's suicide, all these are evoked with
gravity, clarity and a lightness of touch - like the etchings
themselves - which will long remain in the reader's mind.
Introduced by Nicolas Barker, who edited the original manuscripts,
this book offers a real-life portrait of the artist as a young man
and establishes James McBey as a gifted prose stylist in his own
right.
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