Scenes and Apparitions
Description
'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMES
Scenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record of how a citizen at the close of the second Elizabethan age observed and chronicled his own world at the turn of the century. Although it is not without tragedy - the murder of his friend Gianni Versace, and the death of his beloved wife Julia Trevelyan Oman - there is plenty to enjoy from his descriptions of Elton John's fiftieth birthday party, to a concert for the Queen Mother, and his portraits of marriage, friendship, work and his celebrated garden, The Laskett.
PUBLISHER:
Orion Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
1474603904
ISBN-13:
9781474603904
BINDING:
Paperback / softback
BISAC:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2017
NUMBER OF PAGES:
560
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
7.88(H) x 5.13(W) x 1.25(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / Adult
LANGUAGE:
English