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This uncompromising literary biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also the story of a poet.
List of contents
John Carey: Foreword; Chapter One: Beginnings; Chapter Two: Aylesbury; Chapter Three: The Long and Lovely Summer; Chapter Four: Gone for a Soldier; Chapter Five: Military Prison; Chapter Six: Back in Action; Chapter Seven: On the Run; Chapter Eight: Court Martial Again; Chapter Nine: Marriage; Chapter Ten: Schoolmaster; Chapter Eleven: Falling Apart; Chapter Twelve: A Proper Gentleman; Chapter Thirteen: Young Love; Chapter Fourteen: Otley; Chapter Fifteen: Last Love; Chapter Sixteen: Afterword
About the author
Andrew Taylor is the author of ten books, including biographies of the Arabian traveller Charles Doughty and the 16th Century cartographer Gerard Mercator, as well as books on language, literature, poetry and, history. He studied English Literature at Oxford University and worked as a Fleet Street and BBC television journalist in London and the Middle East before returning to Britain in the 1990s to concentrate on his writing career.
Summary
This uncompromising literary biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also the story of a poet.
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This exemplary biography ... [is] told by Taylor with supreme narrative skill.
