FATHERS AND SONS
the autobiography of a family
by Alexander Waugh
The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century.
Evelyn Waugh's father was a writer as was his brother Alec and his son Auberon.
In this remarkable history of the father and son relationships in his family, Evelyn Waugh's grandson exposes the fraught dynamic that has produced four generations of successful authors.
Spurned by his own father's untimely death, Alexander Waugh embarked on a search for identity, a quest for the universal laws that have governed fathers and sons through the ages.
It led him to some startling and unsavory facts about his fore bears and their behavior towards one another.
It is an entertaining and critical examination of an eccentric family, a study of birth and death of writers and writing in a frank and intimate memoir.
the autobiography of a family
by Alexander Waugh
The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century.
Evelyn Waugh's father was a writer as was his brother Alec and his son Auberon.
In this remarkable history of the father and son relationships in his family, Evelyn Waugh's grandson exposes the fraught dynamic that has produced four generations of successful authors.
Spurned by his own father's untimely death, Alexander Waugh embarked on a search for identity, a quest for the universal laws that have governed fathers and sons through the ages.
It led him to some startling and unsavory facts about his fore bears and their behavior towards one another.
It is an entertaining and critical examination of an eccentric family, a study of birth and death of writers and writing in a frank and intimate memoir.
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