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University of Cambridge.
(Two orphaned boys - one Russian (Ivan), and one British (...)
Two orphaned boys - one Russian (Ivan), and one British (Michael) -may or may not be brothers, Ivan is brought up brutally on the bleak rural steppes, while Michael is cosseted by his grandmother in the Home Counties. And yet they coexist in a sort of parallel universe' their lives interconnected, physically in the text, as well as throug a common yearning - to discover their origins and purpose in life and to find elusive romantic and emotional fulfilment. Ivan manages to escape from his past and present to find a new life abroad. He is in almost constant motion, where Michael remains more or less rooted to the spot. His journey of discovery is through a strange, obsessive internal landscape. Gathorne-Hardy combines a rare narrative skill with compassion and humour.
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(Aged 17, Gerald Brenan suggested to his friend Hope Johns...)
Aged 17, Gerald Brenan suggested to his friend Hope Johnstone that they settle together somewhere east of Pamirs. Surprisingly, the eccentric dandy agreed. They fled England in the summer of 1912: by winter Hope had collapsed, but not until the following February, freezing, penniless and having walked 1,500 miles, did Gerald give up. His life was to be studded with adventure. After World War I, Brenan spent four years alone in the remote Alpujarran mountains. Here he educated himself with 2000 books, wrote furiously and began his tormented and ecstatic love-affair with Dora Carrington, companion to Lytton Stratchey. He was drawn to the 1920s underworld - both in London and Seville - of prostitutes, flamenco singers and the poor. He was tormented by his sexuality, which was, like for many of his class and time, contorted and difficult. This book looks into this with insight and sensitivity, in a way which Brenan was unable to, even in his two autobiographies of which "A Life of One's Own" was one. But it was the Spanish Civil War and marriage to the poetess, Gamel Woolsey, that produced books auch as "The Spanish Labyrinth" and "South From Granada". Brenan knew some of the most brilliant people of his time, including Augustus John, Roger Fry, Bertrand Russell, Cyril Connolly, David Garnett, V.S. Pritchett, Lorca, e.e. cummings and - though he never belonged to the group - he didn't think it existed - Bloomsbury.
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University of Cambridge.
He was brought up in London, and educated at Portuguese Regis School, Bryanston and Cambridge. As a boy, he was one of Benjamin Britten"s favourites and he and his family provided the names for the characters in The Little Sweep. His involvement with Britten is described in John Bridcut"s Britten"s Children.
He subsequently worked in advertising and publishing.
(Two orphaned boys - one Russian (Ivan), and one British (...)
(Aged 17, Gerald Brenan suggested to his friend Hope Johns...)
(An English tourist vacationing in France becomes mixed up...)
(Launched by mistake in a magnificent airship, a young gir...)
(Cyril Bonhamy and Operation Ping Aug 29, 1985 Gathorne-Ha...)
(Book by Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan)
(. dw, 1986, 245pp)