John Le Carre
‘Wonderful - one of those biographies that lives up to all one’s hopes and expectations...'
Stephen Fry
'Lucid, fair-minded and proper...No lover of Wodehouse will want to be without this masterly appraisal'
Daily Mail
'Excellent biography...sensible, loving and well-written'
Guardian
'Wodehouse' is a lucid, scholarly and constantly engrossing biography of one of the greatest comic writers of the 20th century.'
John Mortimer
'Excellent...those who delight in Wodehouse will also delight in McCrum's biography.'
Product Description
One hundred years after his first novel was published P.G. Wodehouse still promises a release from everyday cares into a paradise of innocent comic mayhem. His many books are still in print, his characters -Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth - have passed into the language and his admirers range from Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Waugh to Salman Rushdie, Stephen Fry and Gerry Adams.In a new biography based on research throughout Britain, Europe and the USA Robert McCrum delves deep beneath the brilliant surface of P.G. Wodehouse's extraordinary life: his youth in Edwardian Britain, his golden years in Jazz Age America and his internment in Nazi Germany, the experience that haunted him to his death in 1975, to create a moving and extremely funny portrait of an English writer of genius.
About the Author
Robert McCrum is the author of six novels and two works of non-fiction, The Story of English and My Year Off. He is literary editor of the Observer and lives in London.
