Friends of Promise

Friends of Promise

by Michael Shelden (Author)

Synopsis

This excellent piece of literary history takes as its subject the activities of Connolly and his associates during the years 1939-49, when he edited Horizon, a monthly magazine devoted to the arts. What with the before and after, it is also, in effect, a life of Connolly, and a very good one too. The Author has miraculously captured the mandarin and Byzantine nature of both his protagonist and of the magazine, the most important in the London of its time. His attitude to its volatile, sensitive and brilliant editor is one of complete empathy, his portrait of the man quite possibly the best there now is outside of his own work.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New
Publisher: Minerva
Published: 01 Feb 1990

ISBN 10: 0749390476
ISBN 13: 9780749390471

Author Bio
Born in 1951, Michael Shelden is the author of Graham Greene: The Man Within. His bestselling biography Orwell was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, and he is a frequent contributor to the literary pages of the Daily Telegraph.