Buy this book on-line LOGUE,CHRISTOPHER**: : Prince Charming: A MemoirLONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,1999. ISBN 057119768X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.
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sky blue eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xipp+3-340pp [paginated] includes illus list/table,
acknowledgements,author's foreword,
3 Pts and an afterword,16pp contemporary,biographical-related b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp116/7 and pp212/3 repectively,notes and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and Pts separator pages.
'Prince Charming' is the story of one of our great poets and literary mavericks.It tells,in frank detail and with irresistible relish,of its author's South England childhood and
schooldays; his post-war stint in the army,which ended in disgrace and imprisonment; his years in Paris,during which he was involved in publishing Beckett and wrote pornography; his return to England,
where he was imprisoned for the second time (as a member of the anti-nuclear Committee of 100),
offended T.S. Eliot,participated in the new satire movement,promoted the
public performance of poetry,and invented the poster poem.
As well as Beckett,these pages give
us unofficial glimpses of the likes of Alexander Trocchi,Maurice Girodias,Lindsay Anderson,Nell Dunn,
Kenneth Tynan,Richard Ingrams,Peter Cook and the charismatic Pauline Boty,and there are enough characters
among the less well-known - from the
author's father to the Portobello Road street-trader known as 'Minky' Warren - to stock a lively novel.In effect,'Prince Charming' shows what it has been like for a twentieth century poet to have lived entirely on his wits,often in defiance of convention and close to disaster,but
with sufficient spirit and luck to have contributed,as Christopher Logue has done so distinctively,to the cultural richness of our times. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of LOGUE,CHRISTOPHER**: : Prince Charming: A Memoir. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, collectables, out of print books, livres d'occasion and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |