The Brian Aldiss Collection - The Twinkling Of An Eye
Author: Aldiss, Brian
ISBN: 9780007482580
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 582
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Writer, soldier, bookseller, father: Brian Aldiss has earned many titles in his life. In the Twinkling of an Eye is a candid, vivid and charming look at the stories behind this distinctive writer of fiction.
His life as a struggling novelist is unflinchingly laid bare. There are recollections of the beauty and freedoms of Sumatra, the camaraderie of the army and the sobriety of post-war England, bookselling in Oxford, marital breakdown and financial impoverishment. With insight and honesty, Aldiss delves into his role in the new wave of science fiction writing in the 1960s, and his friendships with his contemporaries: Anthony Storr, J. G. Ballard, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and William Boyd.
This is Aldiss at his most-versatile, outspoken best.
ISBN: 9780007482580
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 582
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 40mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Writer, soldier, bookseller, father: Brian Aldiss has earned many titles in his life. In the Twinkling of an Eye is a candid, vivid and charming look at the stories behind this distinctive writer of fiction.
His life as a struggling novelist is unflinchingly laid bare. There are recollections of the beauty and freedoms of Sumatra, the camaraderie of the army and the sobriety of post-war England, bookselling in Oxford, marital breakdown and financial impoverishment. With insight and honesty, Aldiss delves into his role in the new wave of science fiction writing in the 1960s, and his friendships with his contemporaries: Anthony Storr, J. G. Ballard, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and William Boyd.
This is Aldiss at his most-versatile, outspoken best.
