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The horror of love Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

Hilton, Lisa more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography: literary
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date: 8/11/2011
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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THE HORROR OF LOVE is a story about two people - Nancy Mitford and the Free French commander Gaston Palewski - who conducted a less than ideal love affair in post-war France. She was one of the twentieth century's most glamorous and popular authors, he was one of the most significant European politicians of the period. He inspired and encouraged her to write one of the funniest, most painfully poignant and best-loved novels of its time, The Pursuit of Love, and she supported him through a tumultuous political career. Their mutual life was spent amongst some of the most exciting, powerful and controversial figures of their times in the reawakening centre of European civilisation.

'A biography of the love affair between Nancy Mitford and the Free French commander who inspired her to write her most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, this is a sympathetic and cautionary tale about falling for a philanderer.' -- Sebastian Shakespeare TATLER 'This biography of Nancy Mitford's tumultuous post-war love affair with Gaston Palewski (immortalised in The Pursuit of Love as Fabrice de Sauveterre) paints a portrait of a relationship as agonising as it was intense, sweeping the reader up with conspiratorial ease.' EASY LIVING

Title: The horror of love
Subtitle: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London
Contributors: By (author) Lisa Hilton

ISBN 13: 9780297859604
ISBN 10: 0297859609

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date: 8/11/2011
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
Edition:

BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography: literary
Dewey Classification: 823.912 (DC22)
NBS Classification: Biography: Literary

Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Thickness: 27mm
Weight: 564g