
"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."―Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book ReviewRenowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past―guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their ...
Paperback: 306 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (May 17, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780393321746
ISBN-13: 978-0393321746
ASIN: 0393321746
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
Amazon Rank: 1911202
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A really wonderful warm reporting on human frailty, and the consequences for others. The enduring pain and delusion in defending a love lost that threads through families over generations reminds us as parents of both our own cares but also of our ne...
ally yields clues to a constellation of startling events and eccentric characters: a slow decline from English nobility on one side, a dramatic Scandinavian ancestry on the other. Fires, suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, unconsummated longings, and the rumor of an Indian tea fortune permeate this wry, candid memoir, "part multiple biography, part autobiography, but principally an oblique investigation of the biographer's art" (New York Times Book Review). "[A] perfect example of a memoir that entrances me."―Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe "[O]ne of the few [biographers] who can convey what makes ordinary as well as extraordinary mortals live in our minds."―Los Angeles Times 16 pages of photographs