Collected Memoirs: Edited and introduced by Paul Willetts
Julian Maclaren-Ross
The COLLECTED MEMOIRS features both THE WEEPING AND THE LAUGHTER, Maclaren-Ross’s long out-of-print childhood memoir, and his much better-known MEMOIRS OF THE FORTIES, which incorporates vivid, much-quoted profiles of Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas and the 1940s Soho pub scene. Fans of Maclaren-Ross’s work also have the opportunity to sample an array of delightful, previously uncollected memoirs.
Book Details:
- Author: Julian Maclaren-Ross
- Published Year: 2004
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- UK: Black Spring Press
- Argentina: The Equilateral Beast
Julian Maclaren-Ross
Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-64) was born in London, the youngest child of a Cuban father and an Anglo-Indian mother, and grew up in Britain and on the French Riviera. He worked as a door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman before being conscripted into the army from which he later deserted.Having been discharged from the army after a traumatic spell in a psychiatric hospital, he found a job working with Dylan Thomas as a screenwriter. Invariably clad in dark glasses and an imaculate suit, augmented by a malacca cane and silver snuff-box, he soon established himself as a pivotal figure in wartime...
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Book Reviews
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"Those who have yet to discover this wonderfully stylish and sardonic writer should start here."
The Daily Telegraph -
"A substantial account of his great talent."
The Indenpendent on Sunday -
"Were he writing now… he would be a star."
The Times -
"An excellent anthology."
The Mail on Sunday