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Gloucester Crescent
William Miller
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Sachbuch / Biographien, Autobiographien
Beschreibung
Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize
Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady in the van, and the familiar-looking residents crossing the road ...
This is the story of the Miller family and their circle of brilliant, idealistic and intellectual friends in London in the 60s, 70s and 80s. We follow William through the ups and downs of childhood, as he explores the homes of his famous neighbours, attends dramatic rehearsals with his dad Jonathan Miller, gets drugs and advice from the philosopher A. J. Ayer's wife, and tries to watch the moon landing with Alan Bennett and a room full of writers. Hilarious, and at times heart-breaking, this is also about how we grow up and move on - and what happens when we come back.
Not only a picture of an extraordinary time in Britain's cultural history - and a hitherto unseen portrait of some of the brightest minds of a generation - this book tells the funny, tender and moving story of a young boy trying to carve out his own identity.
Rezensionen
A wonderful insight into life surrounded by the culturati of the late 20th century - funny, wise and finely observed through glasses that are far from rose-tinted.
William Miller is not just writing about a street. This is about family, love, art and the whole of life, and it'
I was charmed by this evocative and tender portrait of an extraordinary street and its extraordinary inhabitants
It'
A love letter to a unique and special time, place and family
has a charm of its own. His portrait of his father, exasperated yet tinged with affection, is beautifully drawn, and he'
Stuffed with hilarious literary gossip and anecdote
Kundenbewertungen
The Durrells, Martin Amis, Gully Wells, The London Review of Books, Camden, Comprehensive school, The Body in Question, Princess Margaret, Mary Kay Wilmers, A.J. Ayer, Pimlico School, Nina Stibbe, Public School, Dee Wells, The Lady in the Van, Footlights, Stanage, Nigella Lawson, Oliver Sacks, Gloucester Crescent, Bedales, Eton, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, Beyond the Fringe, Karl Miller, Regent’s Park Terrace, The House in France, Alan Bennett, My Family and Other Animals, Clare Tomalin, Michael Frayn, Vanessa Lawson, Keeping On, Keeping On, Peter Cook, Private School, Love, Nina, Deborah Rogers