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Richard Aldington 2 - Novelist, Biographer and Exile 1930-1962 (Paperback)
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Richard Aldington 2 - Novelist, Biographer and Exile 1930-1962 (Paperback)
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The story of Richard Aldington, outstanding Imagist poet and author
of the bestselling war novel Death of a Hero (1929), takes place
against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent and creative
years of the twentieth century. Vivien Whelpton provides a
remarkably detailed and sensitive portrayal of the writer from the
age of thirty-eight to his death from a heart attack in 1962. The
first volume, Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover, described
Aldington's life as a stalwart of the pre-war London literary
scene, his experience as an infantryman on the Western Front and
his postwar personal and creative crises; this second volume seeks
to balance the stories of Aldington's subsequent public and private
lives through a careful reading of his novels, poems and letters
with his circle of acquaintances. The ways in which Aldington's
dysfunctional childhood and survivor's guilt continued to haunt him
through the inter-war years and beyond are masterfully untangled by
an author with gifted psychological insight into her subject.
Volume Two covers Aldington's personal and public lives as he
transformed himself from poet to novelist and from novelist to
biographer and explores his debacles and triumphs, particularly in
the wake of his hugely controversial attack on the reputation of
T.E. Lawrence. This authoritative biography recounts the life of
one of the most underrated writers of the last century.
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