Anthony Blunt : His Lives

Informationen zum Autor Miranda Carter was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and Exeter College, Oxford. She worked as a publisher and journalist before beginning research on her biography of Anthony Blunt in 1994. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. Anthony Blunt: His Lives (2001), her first book, won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize, and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Biography Award. In the US it was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best books of 2002. Klappentext When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt's position was assured until his exposure in 1979 left his reputation in tatters. Miranda Carter's brilliantly insightful biography gives us a vivid portrait of a human paradox. Blunt's totally discrete lives, with their permanent contradictions, serve to remind us that there is no one key to any human being's identity: we are all a series of conflicting selves.The highly acclaimed, award-winning biography of Sir Anthony Blunt - aesthete, homosexual, communist, spy. Zusammenfassung The highly acclaimed, award-winning biography of Sir Anthony Blunt - aesthete, homosexual, communist, spy.

Product details

• Authors: Miranda Carter
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2002
• EAN: 9780330367660
• ISBN: 978-0-330-36766-0
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cambridgeshire, True Crime / Espionage, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Espionage & secret services, Espionage and secret services, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)