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Mosaic (Paperback, New edition)
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Mosaic (Paperback, New edition)
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Price R157
Discovery Miles 1 570
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'This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised
me.';In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in
which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to
something more personal - his own family. But rather than the story
being over, in fact it was just beginning. For as the letters from
readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary
narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. Mosaic, then,
is Michael Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories:
some of which are pleasant surprises, other more startling. There
is the death of the fearsome headmaster at his school, who was
murdered by one of the boys after he left: the discovery that his
Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist writer
Jacques Prevert; and a letter from Margaret Forster about the
beauty of his mother, that leads to his remarkable account of a
decade-long affair.;A love story, a detective story, a book of
secrets, Mosaic is both a beautifully written journey into a forest
of family trees, and a fascinating insight into the workings of
genealogy.
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