First Childhood

Lord Berners

ISBN 10: 188598331X / ISBN 13: 9781885983312

Published by Turtle Point Press, US, 2000

About this Item

In First Childhood Lord Berners demonstrates the neat precision of wit and style which typifies his musical compositions. This is a subtle work of art and a masterpiece of understatement. Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book to be enchanting from cover to cover.' - Daily Mail'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Childhood
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press, US
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188598331X
• ISBN 13: 9781885983312
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 287 grams

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Synopsis

"Quietly remarkable autobiography alive with unforgotten terrors, unforgiven indignities"...Alan Hollingsworth

About the Author

Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, novelist, painter, memoirist, conspicuous aesthete and the real life character on whom Nancy Mitford based Lord Merlin in The Pursuit of Love. This versatile peer has been called the English Satie. His ballets have been choreographed by Balanchine and Ashton.