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Oh, What a Lovely Century - One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society (Hardcover)
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Oh, What a Lovely Century - One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R315
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A completely extraordinary autobiography.
One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that
is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd, Sunday Times bestselling
author 'Outrageous fun...my goodness there are knee-tremblers
galore in this racy memoir' - The Times 'A wonderful journey
through 20th Century history. I thoroughly enjoyed it' - Lady Anne
Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting --- For fear of growing up
like his stiff-upper-lipped Uncle Dick, Roderic Fenwick Owen
(1921-2011) survived Eton, Oxford and the Second World War to
become a travel writer, experiencing the varied wonders of the 20th
century's people and places in that guise. Frequently finding
himself party to crucial historical events (including experiencing
Nazi Germany in 1939 and the Pentagon during the Cold War Years),
his life featured a stellar cast of characters from Eisenhower and
Jackson Pollock to Christopher Lee and Sean Connery. At the heart
of Roddy's writing adventures lay his search for love, even if just
for the night. He fell head over heels for, and married a
Polynesian princess while beachcombing in Tahiti, but when a
dazzling trip to 1950s New York opened his eyes to the fact he was
more attracted to men than women, he was forced to continue his
quest for his soulmate under threat of danger. This was at a time
when the police were prosecuting and imprisoning more gay men than
ever before, including some of his friends. Lyrical, witty and at
times jaw-droppingly unbelievable, Oh, What A Lovely Century is
both a highly personal memoir and a marvellous obituary of an
ever-changing and now lost world - that was frequently the best of
times, and sometimes the worst. --- 'A joy' - The Telegraph
'Entertaining [and] particularly vivid' - Mail on Sunday 'Riotous'
- Evening Standard 'Gamey, rollicking and hugely entertaining' -
Spectator 'Stuffed to the gills with raucous anecdotes and
mesmerising detail ... Fenwick Owen's memoirs are witty and
touching but also an important record of how society has changed' -
Jessica Fellowes, author of The Mitford Murders
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