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Patrick O'Brian - A Very Private Life (Hardcover)
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An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson
Nikolai Tolstoy. Patrick O'Brian was one of the greatest British
novelists of the twentieth century, securing his place in literary
history with the bestselling Aubrey-Maturin series, books that have
sold millions of copies worldwide and been hailed as the best
historical fiction of all time. An exquisite novelist, translator
and biographer, O'Brian moved in 1949 to Collioure in the south of
France, where he led a secluded life with his wife Mary and wrote
all his major works. The twenty books that make up the beloved
Aubrey-Maturin series earned O'Brian the epithet 'Jane Austen at
sea' for their authentic depiction of Nelson's navy, and the
relationship between Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and ship's
surgeon Stephen Maturin. Outside his triumphant popularity in
fiction, O'Brian also wrote erudite biographies of both Pablo
Picasso and Joseph Banks, as well as publishing translations of
Simone de Beauvoir and Henri Charriere. In A Very Private Life,
Nikolai Tolstoy draws upon his close relationship with his
stepfather, as well as his notebooks, letters and photographs, to
capture a highly researched but intimate account of those fifty
years in Collioure that were the richest of O'Brian's writing life.
With warm and honest reflection, this biography gives insight into
the genius of the little-known man behind the much-loved writing.
Tolstoy also tells how, through a sad irony, unjust attacks on
O'Brian's private life destroyed much of the happiness he had
gained from his achievement just as his literary career attained
greater acclaim.
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