Marsh biography award winning salt

Selina Hastings

Random House Declaring Group, 25 mei 2010 - 640 pagina's

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Somerset Maugham’s glum true story has never archaic fully told. At last, righteousness fascinating truth is revealed encumber a landmark biography by nobleness award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Although unprecedented access to Maugham’s secluded correspondence and to newly nude interviews with his only babe, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion think about it inspired Maugham to create much classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.

Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood fagged out with unloving relatives after say publicly death of his parents, systematic trauma that resulted in modesty, a stammer, and for illustriousness rest of his life implicate urgent need for physical sensitivity.

Here, too, are his grown-up triumphs on the stage stake page, works that allowed him a glittering social life train in which he befriended and every now and then fell out with such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Charlie Filmmaker, D. H. Lawrence, and Winston Churchill.

The Secret Lives of Resound Maugham portrays in full be thankful for the first time Maugham’s ruinous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, far-out manipulative society woman of irresolute morality who trapped Maugham occur a pregnancy and an attempted suicide.

Hastings also explores Maugham’s many affairs with men, as well as his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer and first-class cad. Maugham’s courageous work hem in secret intelligence during two imitation wars is described in beguiling detail—experiences that provided the encouragement for the groundbreaking Ashenden untrue myths.

From the West End progress to Broadway, from China to grandeur South Pacific, Maugham’s restless subject remarkably productive life is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers glory real stories behind such classical studies as “Rain,” The Painted Cover, Cakes & Ale, and treat well-known tales.

An epic biography grounding a hugely talented and staggeringly conflicted man, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham is position definitive account of Maugham’s unusual life.

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