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A Dog's Life
Michael Holroyd
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Description for A Dog's Life
Paperback. A confessional autobiographical novel from one of Britain's best loved authors. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 170.
Eustace is undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family. That is, he would be if everyone stopped mumbling, let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs.
It's not Henry's fault that he snores and that his marriage has collapsed. Or that he failed to get into the cricket team. But he has made up for it and is now a faster motorist than ever he was bowler. He is a good father too and one day, when he wakes up from day-dreaming, his son Kenneth will thank him.
It is good that Anne ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848665248
SKU
V9781848665248
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Ref
99-10
About Michael Holroyd
Michael Holroyd was born in 1935, and educated at Eton and the Maidenhead Public Library. His biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw have established him as one of the most influential biographers of modern times. He was awarded the CBE in 1989 and was knighted in 2007. He is married to novelist Margaret Drabble and lives ... Read more
Reviews for A Dog's Life
Full of languorous charm and mischievous humour
Gerard Woodward
TLS
Michael Holroyd has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person
George Steiner
The New Yorker
A deft portrait of dysfunctional family life
Mail on Sunday
Anything by Michael Holroyd is always a treat
Katy Guest
... Read more
Gerard Woodward
TLS
Michael Holroyd has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person
George Steiner
The New Yorker
A deft portrait of dysfunctional family life
Mail on Sunday
Anything by Michael Holroyd is always a treat
Katy Guest
... Read more