MORE MEMOIRS OF AN AESTHETE

by Harold Acton ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1987

American devotees of Acton's elegant prose, please note: despite its title, this is not a continuation of the reminiscences published here in 1970 by Viking and called Memoirs of an Aesthete. Rather, this is a reissuing of that volume under its original British title. Whatever its tangled history, however, it remains a delightful excursion into the worlds of artists and aristocrats, soldiers and socialites from 1939 to 1969. Acton is a raconteur of the highest order, with an unerring eye for the all-revealing foible and a pen honed to ÉpÉe sharpness. His portrait of Gertrude Stein mesmerizing a group of goggle-eyed, gum-snapping GIs and his depiction of Edith Sitwell in full gothic fig are classics of their kind--and in recounting his experiences during wartime, Acton can be very moving indeed.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1987

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton--dist. by David & Charles

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1987

Categories: NONFICTION