- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; New edition edition (Nov 1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 022401157X
- ISBN-13: 978-0224011570
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Autobiography of the novelist which covers the years spent in Malta and ends with his departure from England in 1919 to live in Spain.
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Gerald Brenan A Life of One's Own: Childhood and Youth 1962
Entertaining and vivid autobiography by an important Bloomsbury associate, written long after the events which include his WW1 experiences - explicit about his sources -when childhood memories are influenced by anecdote or family tradition, or where memory failed and he resorts to his own writings from the time. The aftermath of the 1916 attack on Mametz Wood was documented much nearer the time by writers such as Robert Graves, Sassoon and David Jones. Graves describes one identical scene to one described by Brenan, so similar that one might wonder if Graves, in `Goodbye to all That', appropriated an early verbal account from Brenan, or whether time enhanced Brenan's unforgettably telling description.
Entertaining and vivid autobiography by an important Bloomsbury associate, written long after the events which include his WW1 experiences - explicit about his sources -when childhood memories are influenced by anecdote or family tradition, or where memory failed and he resorts to his own writings from the time. The aftermath of the 1916 attack on Mametz Wood was documented much nearer the time by writers such as Robert Graves, Sassoon and David Jones. Graves describes one identical scene to one described by Brenan, so similar that one might wonder if Graves, in `Goodbye to all That', appropriated an early verbal account from Brenan, or whether time enhanced Brenan's unforgettably telling description.
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