Long Life Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Long Life Book

Nigel Nicolson has been many things to many people, but throughout his life he has managed to remain his own man. The son of Harold Nicolson and the notorious Vita Sackville-West, Nicolson apparently inherited his parents' gift for writing; his autobiography, Long Life, is an illuminating chronicle of a life that spans eight decades. For aficionados of the Bloomsbury group, Nicolson obligingly offers up details of his parents' marriage, his mother's relationships with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf, and his father's own indiscretion with a fellow (male) guest at a house party. Those interested in Nicolson's publishing career will find plenty of food for thought in his account of the house he founded with partner George Weidenfeld and the books they championed--most notably, Vladimir Nabokov's scandalous Lolita. Finally, readers who know Nicolson primarily as a war historian are rewarded with his reminiscences of his time as a soldier in North Africa and Italy during World War II--experiences that became the foundation of his excellent biography of Field Marshal Earl Alexander. Love, war, and literature--could you ask for any more from one man? In the case of Nigel Nicolson, yes. Throw in politics--Nicolson was a member of Parliament in the 1950s--family, and famous friends, all charmingly depicted, and you have an extraordinary life encapsulated between the covers of one book. Readers of Long Life will be wishing the same to Nicolson and hoping for another installment.Read More

from£N/A | RRP: £20.31
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £N/A
  • Product Description

    The younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson grew up in a world that combined Bloomsbury with Knole, Eton with Sissinghurst, Oxford with uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides. He was Virginia Woolf's eleven-year-old companion while she was writing Orlando, her fantasy about his mother. He admired Mussolini in Rome and Goebbels in Berlin, then changed his mind when war came, serving in the Grenadier Guards in the African and Italian campaigns. After the war, he founded, with George Weidenfeld, the publishing firm of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, which flourished in the face of such controversial publications as Nabokov's Lolita. Simultaneously, he became a member of Parliament, serving for seven years as Tory MP for Bournemouth. After leaving politics, he returned to writing full-time, editing his father's famous diaries and Virginia Woolf's letters. His best-known book, Portrait of a Marriage, describes his mother's torrid love affair with Violet Trefusis and its aftermath. In Long Life, Nigel Nicolson paints a vivid portrait of a truly fascinating life.

  • 0399143637
  • 9780399143632
  • Nigel Nicolson
  • 1 March 1998
  • Putnam Pub Group (T)
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 294
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.