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The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
by Sebastian Faulks
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0099518015
- ISBN 13
- 9780099518013
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Vintage, January 1997. Paper Back. Good. Creased covers & spine, names on inside cover & end page, a solid unmarked reading copy.
Synopsis
Wildly exciting..it's a classic' David HareChristopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev and was a friend of Cocteau. In the last months of his 29-year life, he fought a ravening opium addiction to succeed in claiming a place in history of English painting.Richard Hilary, confident, handsome and unpricipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being shot down and horribly burned. He underwent several operations by the legendary plastic surgeon, A H McIndoe. His account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, made him famous, but not happy. He begged to be allowed to return to flying, and died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23.Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden. Charming, generous and witty, he was the cleverest Englishman of his generation, but left All Souls to become a hack reporter. At the height of the Cold War, he was sent to Moscow where his louche private life made him the plaything of the intelligence services. A terrifying sequence of events ended in Washington where he died at the age of 31.
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- Bookseller
- Eighth Day Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20110129184128
- Title
- The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
- Author
- Sebastian Faulks
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0099518015
- ISBN 13
- 9780099518013
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- January 1997
- Pages
- 352
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