Overview
A selective autobiography of the most successful, most celebrated and most important architectural historian of his generation. Elegant and moving reminiscences with significant Irish, catholic and architectural resonance by a well established and much loved writer with many successful books in the catalogue.
Mark Girouard selects and reproduces 29 letters, ranging from his early childhood during the war to recent years, and uses them to memorialise their diverse authors. In the process a selective autobiography emerges as he discusses his relationship with the diverse crowd, painting a riveting picture of Bohemian cultural life in post-war Britain and Ireland. And the point of it all is to show that friendship has nothing to do with fame or wealth, but entirely with that sudden click of reciprocity, or pleasure in companionship, that makes life worth living.
- | Author: Mark Girouard
- | Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 03, 2017
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781908524966
- | ISBN-10: 1908524960