Gluck: Her Biography
Author:   Diana Souhami
Publisher:   Quercus Publishing
ISBN:  

9781780878881


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Gluck: Her Biography


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Author:   Diana Souhami
Publisher:   Quercus Publishing
Imprint:   riverrun
Dimensions:   Width: 12.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781780878881


ISBN 10:   1780878885
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

A Personal Note. 'Gluck, no prefix, no quotes'. REBELLION 1895-1936: 'The Family'. Stage and country. Bolton House. White Flowers. The Gluck Frame. LOVE 1936-1944: 'YouWe'. Roots and brambles. Blaze with a fire. The Queen wore peacock blue. 'the brind and the wheeze'. The war effort. The war within. THE FACTS OF LIFE 1945-1978: The eternal triangle. Yeats's bones. Cosmic injustice. The paint war. Lacuna. A retrospective view. The dying of the light. Afterword. Notes. Bibliography. Works Illustrated. Index.

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'Diana Souhami has written a fascinating and well-researched book about this remarkable woman and important artist, who dressed as a man and painted in her own unique style. She has caught Gluck's mania for excellence and the passion she spent on her lovers' Mary Wesley, Daily Telegraph. 'A quiet triumph' Publishing News, Book of the Year.


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Author Website:   http://www.dianasouhami.co.uk/

Diana Souhami is the author of Selkirk's Island (winner of the Whitbread Biography award), The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year'). Her latest book is Murder at Wrotham Hill. She lives in London and Devon.

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Author Website:   http://www.dianasouhami.co.uk/

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