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Basil Street blues
By Holroyd, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-39304-850-6
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2000, c 1999.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2000
English biographer Holroyd has been called the greatest living biographer for his accounts of the lives of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and George Bernard Shaw. If a biographer is required to give an account of his own life "as a passport for travelling into the lives of others," then this book is Holroyd's own. Beginning with conflicting accounts by his parents, two peop...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
