For this account of the life of Somerset Maugham the author was able to draw on several interviews with Alan Searle, Maugham's companion for 35 years as well as other information unavailable to previous biographers.
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For this account of the life of Somerset Maugham the author was able to draw on several interviews with Alan Searle, Maugham's companion for 35 years as well as other information unavailable to previous biographers.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, good ex library copy with first endpaper removed in VG black pictorial dj in mylar. 429 pp. including index. Differing from Ted Morgan's antipathetic Maugham (1980), this thorough, scholarly biography--written, unlike earlier books, with the cooperation of Maugham's secretary Alan Searle--sympathetically explores Maugham's homosexuality and its effect on his writing. Emphasizing the prolific writer's "sensitivity, wit, loyalty and numerous kindnesses.
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Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0434105066. Slightly cocked at top of spine; unmarked but for small name label to front endpaper; in rubbed dust jacket.; 1.7 x 9.7 x 6.6 Inches; 448 pages.