Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and the Financial Times A completely fresh view of one of the most giftedùand fascinatingùwriters of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited Graham Greene hailed Evelyn Waugh as ôthe greatest novelist of my generation,ö and in recent years WaughÆs reputation has only grown. Now, half a century after WaughÆs death in 1966, with Evelyn Waugh, Philip Eade has delivered a hugely entertaining biography that is both authoritative and full of new information, some of it sensational. Drawing on extensive unseen primary sources, EadeÆs book sheds new light on many of the key phases and themes of WaughÆs life: his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father; his formative homosexual affairs at Oxford; his unrequited love for various Bright Young Things; his disastrous first marriage; his momentous conversion to Roman Catholicism; his unconventional yet successful second marriage; his checkered wartime career; and his shattering nervous breakdown. Along the way, we come to understand not only WaughÆs complex relationship with the aristocracy, but also the astonishing power of his wit, and the love, fear, and loathing that he variously inspired in others. Waugh was famously difficult, and Eade brilliantly captures the myriad facets of his character, even as he casts new light on the novels that have dazzled generations of readers.

• | Author: Philip Eade
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Oct 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 464 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1250143292
• | ISBN-13: 9781250143297