Family business : a memoir / Peter J. Conradi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conradi, Peter J., 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conradi, Peter J., 1945-.

Conradi, Peter J.

Biographers--Great Britain--Biography.

Biographers.

Great Britain.

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

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bridgend, Wales : Seren is the book imprint of Poetry Wales Press Ltd., [2019]

Summary:

Family Business is Peter J. Conradi's multi-stranded memoir. It explores his Jewish background, his rebellious youth, his sexuality, and his relationship with the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, who became almost a second family for him.

Contents:

Part 1 Early Years

1 Florence Alice Conradi, 1892-1983 p. 17

2 Parents-at-war, 1945-72 p. 30

3 Being German p. 43

4 Being English p. 49

5 Frinton-on-Sea p. 55

6 Oundle, 1958 p. 58

7 Affinity, 1965 p. 66

8 Who: Whom, 1970 p. 80

9 Son-into-Disciple p. 84

Part 2 Family History

Father's Family

10 Quitting Paris, 1870 p. 95

11 Settling in London, 1871 p. 104

12 War, 1914 p. 110

13 Brothers and others, 1870 p. 117

14 Cousin Cyrus, 1943 p. 124

Mother's Family

15 George Cohen & Sons, 1834 p. 129

16 Parvenus and Pariahs, 1920 p. 137

17 Parents-at-war, 1940-45 p. 143

Part 3 Iris Murdoch

18 Disciple into Biographer p. 153

19 Strange Beginnings and Endings p. 159

20 Organised Innocence p. 166

21 Philippa Foot p. 174

22 Canetti's Sting p. 188

23 Hedda Gabler and other matters p. 200

24 The Fear of an Ending p. 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1781725012

9781781725016

OCLC:

1083272462