Fault lines / David Pryce-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pryce-Jones, David, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pryce-Jones, David, 1936-.

Pryce-Jones, David.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 21 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Criterion Books, 2015.

Summary:

"Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of the well-known writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Alan Pryce-Jones and Therese "Poppy" Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of a family, embodying the fault lines of the title: "not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional but not quite secure." Graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, David Pryce-Jones served as Literary Editor of the Financial Times and the Spectator, a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review. Fault Lines -- a memoir that spans Europe, America, and the Middle East and encompasses figures ranging from Somerset Maugham to Svetlana Stalin to Elie de Rothschild -- has the storytelling power of Pryce-Jones's numerous novels and non-fiction books, and is perceptive and poignant testimony to the fortunes and misfortunes of the present age"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 A Moment in Austria 1

2 Le Palais Abbatial 8

3 Tivoligasse 71 19

4 Ménage à Trois 33

5 Reputed Father 54

6 Here He Is! 70

7 Money! Money! Money! 84

8 Mr Pryce and Mrs Jones 102

9 The Only Duty 112

10 Storm Clouds 122

11 Adolfo Chamberlini 131

12 Exodus 150

13 Villa to Villa 173

14 War in Kent 193

15 Post-Mortem 205

16 One's Rothschild Cousins 225

17 Radio Toscane 236

18 Second to None 248

19 Midnight Mollie 271

20 Middle East and Middle West 277

21 Influence? 303

22 Sonia 309

23 A Burnt-Out Fairground 312

24 Grand Guignol 325

25 The Last Throw 332.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780985905231

0985905239

OCLC:

910530616