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Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography / Laura Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Pegasus Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781643133034
  • 1643133039
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR6025 .I9Z85 2020
Action note:
  • Cataloging Notes: 20241108 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199
Summary: Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very complex." Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford's two surviving sisters, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant façade.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation):: Thompson, Laura, 1964- Life in a cold climate.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-403) and index.

Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very complex." Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford's two surviving sisters, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant façade.

Cataloging Notes: 20241108 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199

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