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Lord Berners

Lord Berners

The Last Eccentric

by Sam Leith
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Age range: + years old Publication Date: 11/12/2008

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Here lies Lord Berners/One of life?s learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in Mark Amory's words 'The Last Eccentric', famously dyeing the pigeons at his house, Faringdon, in vibrant colours, and, for a time, having a giraffe as a pet and tea companion. His literary and artistic milieu was glittering: Stravinsky, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Siegfried Sassoon, John Betjeman, the Sitwells, Harold Nicolson, Frederick Ashton and Gertrude Stein ? they all belonged to it. In fiction, he was famously portrayed as Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford?s The Pursuit of Love. ?As social history and a chronicle of a mad-cap English eccentric this long awaited, much needed and beautifully written book is, to use a simple cliche, indispensable.? Alexander Waugh, Literary Review ?In Amory, this engaging character has found the ideal biographer. Getting the exact measure of its subject throughout, written in a dry, wittily ironic prose?the biography offers of sheer bliss.? Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times
ISBN:
9780571247653
9780571247653
Category:
Biography: general
Age range:
+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11-12-2008
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x22mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Sam Leith

Sam Leith is literary editor at the Spectator, contributes columns to the Financial Times, the Evening Standard and Prospect, and his work appears regularly in the Guardian, The Times and the TLS among others.

His broadcasting work has included appearances on The Culture Show, The Review Show, Front Row, the News Quiz, Fry's English Delight and a regular slot on the Sky Arts Book Programme.

His books include Dead Pets, Sod's Law and You Talkin' to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. The Coincidence Engine, his first novel, was published in April 2011 and was included in the "Waterstone's 11" list of the best first novels of that year.

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