The Lamberts

George, Constant and Kit

Sir Andrew Motion (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

1995
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-17605-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A story of three generations destroyed by drink, drugs and bohemian life. George Lambert served as a war artist in Palestine and Gallipoli, and became Australia's leading painter. His son Constant founded the Sadlers Wells ballet, and Kit Lambert managed the pop group, The Who, and was murdered.

Autor

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems, The Cinder Path (2009), was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.1995
• Zusatzinfo: illustrations facsimiles, geneal. table, portraits
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 134 x 215 mm
• Gewicht: 496 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• ISBN-10: 0-571-17605-4 / 0571176054
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-17605-2 / 9780571176052
• Zustand: Neuware