PRIVATE ROAD by Forrest Reid ( 9780571283682 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PRIVATE ROAD

By:

Forrest Reid

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0571283683

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9780571283682

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

17 November, 2011

Pages:

244

Description:

Offers the author's descriptions of his early writing efforts; correspondence with Henry James that began with promise yet ended disappointingly; his Cambridge encounters with such luminaries as Ronald Firbank and W B Yeats; the production and reception of his first published works; and his friendships with E M Forster and Walter de la Mare.

Synopsis:

In this, the companion volume to his earlier autobiographical "Apostate" (1926), Forrest Reid continues his 'chronicle of a prolonged personal adventure'. "Private Road" (first published in 1940) offers Reid's descriptions of his early writing efforts; a youthful correspondence with Henry James that began with promise yet ended disappointingly ('the Master was not pleased...'); his Cambridge encounters with such luminaries as Ronald Firbank and W.B. Yeats; the production and reception of his first published works; and his valued friendships with E.M. Forster and Walter de la Mare. The closing stages of the book reflect Reid's unique sense of the spiritual: a compelling meditation on our 'second life' in a place Reid calls 'dreamland', wherein a 'shadowy agent' conjures an atmosphere that can hold powerful inspirational properties for the artist. Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost/neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books.

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