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Plot / Content: Rating: g "Famous and deservedly successful, so appeared Bernard Sands in the eyes of English society. Novelist, publicist, supporter of the underdog, liberal humanist and democrat, Sands' career had been a splendid one and now in the maturity of his years he had crowned it by arranging that Vardon Hall, a fine 18th-century estate in the Home Counties, should be financed from Government sources as a home for young writers. "But Bernard is plagued not only by a neurasthenic wife and a fundamental contradiction in his own character, but by enemies and fake friends in many quarters." (from the inside cover of paperback version) Background / Biography:
Reviews: "establishes him immediately as the most important English novelist to come forward since the last war." Arthur Calder Marshall in The Listener "A novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards." The Times Literary Supplement "An outstanding book ... He is mercilessly accurate and never dull." John Betjeman in The Daily Telegraph all quotes from inside cover Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Of all the communications that Bernard Sands received on the day of his triumph the one which gave him the greatest satisfaction was the Treasury's final confirmation of official financial backing. He looked back over his long years of struggle and victory, against authority in all the guises which the literary world could lend it - publishers, editors, critics, cultural committees, the reading public - and noted with a certain surprise that he had almost come to take his ultimate ascendancy fo granted. The earliest victories, of course, had cost him the most in self-discipline and in intellectual determination. For a Grand Old Man of Letters it had become fairly plain sailing; even, he relfected with satisfaction, for a Grand Enfant Terrible, though he instantly reminded himself of the histrionic dangers - the knickerbockered, bearded, self-satisfied, quizzing air - of the position he had won in English life. If he had forced from the public and the critics respect and hearing for his eternal questioning of their best-loved 'truths', he must never allow them to feel they were indulging the court jester. They should continue to take from him exactly the pill they did not like, and take it without the sugar of whimsy. Beneath his lined, large-featured face a certain bony determination asserted itself as he thought with satisfaction of his proved strength and independence; the habitual irony of his large dark eyes was replaced by an unusual serenity. If on occasion he mistrusted his own powers, it was not a mistrust that he intended others to share." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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