- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Viking; First edition edition (7 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670851515
- ISBN-13: 978-0670851515
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 471,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is the sixth volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, set in the South of France where he lived for a number of years. The book concludes in Britain, taking its title from the location of his London residence.
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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Over a period of nearly thirty years Sir Dirk Bogarde established himself as a unique and compelling voice in English literature. This, at times heart rending, always compelling and immensely readable book is his finest hour. It charts the disintegration of the idyll that Bogarde shared with his former manager Forwood in Provence for twenty years. How the onset of old age in both of them and cancer in Forwood made a return to the UK a necessity. The central relationship is a complex one which has been typically and one-dimensionally assumed to be gay by the popular press. I suspect that the relationship was asexual, that of two bachelors by circumstance rather than confirmation who rather drifted to together and melded like the best of marriages. The treatment of the confusion wrought by disease and infermity is moving in the extreme. Bogarde's unselfpitying struggle to rebuild his life in small flat in Knightsbridge can only engender the sympathy of the reader. Interlaced throughout is a eulogy to the friends and life that he left behind in Southern France. This events charted are actually heroic and this book is a real contender for my favourite read of all time.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a youngster and about as far away from the events depicted in this book as you can get but I have never experienced such a moving and involving description of what it's like to grow old as in this book. I quite liked Dirk Bogarde's films but after reading this unforgettable and honest book my repsect for him has rocketed. He'll be missed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of my favourite reads.I have ordered dirks previous 4 biogs to read since!
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Moving and brilliant
This near final chapter in DB's life is told with uncompromising honesty rarely found in many of today's biographers. Read more
Published 6 months ago by R. Harris
Good find
I had been looking for this book for ages. Great to find it and in such good condition.
Published on 25 Jan 2010 by Mrs. D. J. Evans
Profoundly moving but fundamentally dishonest
Sir Dirk Bogarde was as good a writer as he was an actor (later period anyway). This book is no exception: it is beautifully, sensitively written, conveying all the pain, heartache... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2006 by Philip Hurst
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