Looking for Mr Nobody; The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees

Rees, Jenny

ISBN 10: 0297814303 / ISBN 13: 9780297814306

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1994

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Copy in black cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Coloured end papers. Occasional light foxing to folio fore-edges. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.

Seller Inventory # 032655

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking for Mr Nobody; The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297814303
• ISBN 13: 9780297814306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

Jenny Rees is the eldest of the five children of Goronwy Rees, Editor of "Encounter" and friend of A.J. Ayer, Noel Annan and Elizabeth Bowen (who put him in her novel "Death of the Heart"). Since Rees's death more than 10 years ago she has had to cope with the frequently-made allegations that her father was another of the spies recruited at Cambridge in the 1930s. He had never disguised his friendship with Guy Burgess, who with Donald Maclean had defected to Moscow in 1951. In 1979 Rees helped Andrew Boyle unmask Anthony Blunt, the fourth man, but by then Rees himself was dying of cancer. Was Rees himself actually a spy? The recent opening of KGB files have acted as a spur to Jenny Rees in her quest to exorcise the past. The result is full of unexpected revelation made all the more moving as Jenny Rees discovers for the first time the secret life of her father.

About the Author

Jenny Rees, Goronwy Rees's eldest child, has been a newspaper journalist for most of her working life. She has been a reporter and feature writer for the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, and the Daily Telegraph.