- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781472994820
- Product code: 546781
Confessions
A Life of Failed Promises
AN Wilson New Paperback Illustrated
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‘I have never been completely sure who AN Wilson was,’ writes the prolific novelist, biographer, historian and journalist. This frank, funny, rueful and often moving memoir is his attempt to find out. Kind to others and merciless about his own failings, he recalls his parents, the collapse of his early marriage, his flirtation with the priesthood, friendships and love affairs as well as his rumbustious, alcohol-soaked Fleet Street career.
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When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry
Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love and his life in Grub Street as a prolific writer.
Before he came to London, as one of the "Best of Young British" novelists, and Literary Editor of the Spectator, we meet another A. N. Wilson. We meet his father, the Managing Director of Wedgwood, the grotesque teachers at his first boarding school, and the dons of Oxford - one of whom, at the age of just 20, he married, the renowned Shakespearean scholar, the late Katherine Duncan-Jones.
At every turn of this reminiscence, Wilson is baffled by his earlier self - whether flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood. His chapter on the High Camp seminary which he attended in Oxford is among the funniest in the book.
We follow his unsuccessful attempts to become an academic, his aspirations to be a Man of Letters, and his eventual encounters with the famous, including some memorable meetings with royalty.
The princesses, dons, paedophiles and journos who cross the pages are as sharply drawn as figures in his early comic fiction. But there is also a tenderness here, in his evocation of those whom he has loved, and hurt, the most.
Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love and his life in Grub Street as a prolific writer.
Before he came to London, as one of the "Best of Young British" novelists, and Literary Editor of the Spectator, we meet another A. N. Wilson. We meet his father, the Managing Director of Wedgwood, the grotesque teachers at his first boarding school, and the dons of Oxford - one of whom, at the age of just 20, he married, the renowned Shakespearean scholar, the late Katherine Duncan-Jones.
At every turn of this reminiscence, Wilson is baffled by his earlier self - whether flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood. His chapter on the High Camp seminary which he attended in Oxford is among the funniest in the book.
We follow his unsuccessful attempts to become an academic, his aspirations to be a Man of Letters, and his eventual encounters with the famous, including some memorable meetings with royalty.
The princesses, dons, paedophiles and journos who cross the pages are as sharply drawn as figures in his early comic fiction. But there is also a tenderness here, in his evocation of those whom he has loved, and hurt, the most.
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‘I have never been completely sure who AN Wilson was,’ writes the prolific novelist, biographer, historian and journalist. This frank, funny, rueful and often moving memoir is his attempt to find out. Kind to others and merciless about his own failings, he recalls his parents, the collapse of his early marriage, his flirtation with the priesthood, friendships and love affairs as well as his rumbustious, alcohol-soaked Fleet Street career.
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