EAN: 9781842321485 ISBN: 184232148X
806 pages. Size: 135 x 205 mm. Paperback.
Breaking In is the first part of the autobiography of one of the most successful writers of the twentieth century, Nicholas Monsarrat. He describes his privileged childhood in Liverpool, where his father was the greatest surgeon of his time, recalling all the small details of a provincial upbringing. The account of his days at public school are acidly described, and in remarkable contrast to his golden days at Cambridge, where he enjoyed good friends, good wine and little work. At twenty-three, Monsarrat turned his back on his comfortable family home, fled from the desk of his uncle's solicitor's office, and settled in a single, mildewed room in London, with a typewriter and a half-finished manuscript. Here, he describes the years of learning to write, learning to live and learning to love - invaluable lessons for a future which comprised war, emigration, marital upheaval and the hazards of artistic achievement.
Breaking Out takes us up to 1956 - the year in which Monsarrat produced the novel widely acclaimed as his finest, The Tribe That Lost Its Head; the year when he was living in Ottawa as Chief of the British Information Services; the year he calls 'The Year of the Stupid Ox'. As Monsarrat charts his life with astonishing frankness, we are given a stunning portrait of this complex character, this brilliant storyteller. Nicholas Monsarrat
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