Catch Hold Of Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939-1966 Crafted By Martin Stannard Compiled As Text

an awful biography. The author doesn't seem

to like Mr, Waugh, and seems disappointed he isn't a "Good" Leftist like Grahame Greene, We get constant judgmental scolding's and snide attacks on Waugh, A rather odd attitude for a biographer, and it makes for a terrible biography, "There is an unmistakable relish in his fiction for the pathologically deranged, A glamour attaches to their childlike recklessness, . . Unlike their creator, however, they his fictional characters lived unmolested by selfreflection, Evelyn Waugh was a tormented man, He hurt people and somehow could not stop himself from doing it, . . Power shimmered from him like heat and, with the schoolboy's delight in the electricshock handshake, he loved the effect, " Extremely thorough, occasionally more judgmental than seems justified by the evidence he presents, and as strangely determined to defend Marshall Tito as Waugh was to destroy him, But a great portrait of Waugh emerges, Now I guess I'll have to read "The Early Years, " This eagerly awaited second volume completes the portrait of Evelyn Waugh, taking readers through his wartime experience, his most renowned works from Brideshead Revisited to the Sword of Honour trilogy, and his sudden death.
Stannard draws on hundreds of unpublished sources to reveal the real Evelyn Waugh, Photographs. .