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I Know You are Going to be Happy - The Story of a Sixties Family

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Zusatztext Dance and music critic Christiansen gives a moving, unsparing account of how promising careers in journalism and the good wishes of friends for their marriage turned sour for his mother and father. Informationen zum Autor Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at King's College, Cambridge. He has written several books, including Prima Donna, Romantic Affinities, Paris Babylon, The Visitors, Arthur Hugh Clough, Pocket Guide to Opera and The Complete Book of Aunts. . He is currently opera critic and arts columnist for the Daily Telegraph and dance critic for The Mail on Sunday. He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines. In 1997, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext In this poignant and perceptive portrait of his parents' catastrophically acrimonious divorce, Rupert Christiansen tells the story of a generation. "Compulsive read - What makes it fascinating is witnessing Christiansen's attempt to establish a relationship with his father, for the first time, in these pages. powerful and haunting."-The Guardian "Funny, truthful, and in the end a very painful account of the devastation caused to a small boy by his father leaving the family... Reading Christiansen's tender, insightful, clear-eyed account of it all is a remarkable experience." -The Observer "The evocative portrayal of a single parent family in the Fifties reminds us that nothing in history seems so distant as the day before yesterday." -Mail on Sunday "There is no self-pity in these pages; there is very little self at all, which results in the spare beauty of the prose." -Telegraph "He writes elegant prose, and describes his subjects with an elegiac compassion." - Jessica Mann, Literary Review "Dance and music critic Christiansen gives a moving, unsparing account of how promising careers in journalism and the good wishes of friends for their marriage turned sour for his mother and father." Saga Magazine Zusammenfassung In this poignant and perceptive portrait of his parents' catastrophically acrimonious divorce! Rupert Christiansen tells the story of a generation. ...

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Authors Rupert Christiansen, Christiansen Rupert
Publisher Short Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 07.03.2013
 
EAN 9781780721248
ISBN 978-1-78072-124-8
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 134 mm x 202 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family

England, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, c 1960 to c 1970, Relationships and families: advice and issues, c 1960 to c 1969, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs

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