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Nancy Mitford

By Selina Hastings

By Selina Hastings

By Selina Hastings

By Selina Hastings

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Jul 03, 2012 | ISBN 9780307949462

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Jul 03, 2012 | ISBN 9780307949479

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    About Nancy Mitford

    Nancy Mitford’s life was as glamorous and as dramatic as her most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.

    Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on her eccentric family, she became a huge bestseller and household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, John Betjeman, and, of course, her famous sisters. Noted biographer Selina Hastings captures the gaiety and frivolity as well as the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford’s life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with her dashing but unfaithful French lover contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Hastings has written a biography that is as superbly entertaining and clear-eyed as the unforgettable novels that are its subject’s lasting claim to fame.

    About Nancy Mitford

    Nancy Mitford’s life was as glamorous and as dramatic as her most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.

    Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on her eccentric family, she became a huge bestseller and household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, John Betjeman, and, of course, her famous sisters. Noted biographer Selina Hastings captures the gaiety and frivolity as well as the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford’s life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with her dashing but unfaithful French lover contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Hastings has written a biography that is as superbly entertaining and clear-eyed as the unforgettable novels that are its subject’s lasting claim to fame.

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    About Selina Hastings

    SELINA HASTINGS is the author of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, Rosamond Lehmann, and The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been a judge for a number of literary awards, including the Booker… More about Selina Hastings

    About Selina Hastings

    SELINA HASTINGS is the author of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, Rosamond Lehmann, and The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been a judge for a number of literary awards, including the Booker… More about Selina Hastings

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 03, 2012 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307949462

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 03, 2012 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307949479

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    Praise

    “Selina Hastings has written a book which Nancy Mitford would have been proud to write herself.” —A. N. Wilson, Sunday Telegraph (London)
     
    “Very perceptive and often very funny.” —Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times (London)

    “A gem of a biography.” —Evening Standard

    “An impeccable biogarphy.” —Literary Review

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