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Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners, Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored. So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in Mark Amory's words 'The Last Eccentric', famously dyeing the pigeons at his house, Faringdon, in vibrant colours, and, for a time, having a giraffe as a pet and tea companion. His literary and artistic milieu was glittering: Stravinsky, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Siegfried Sassoon, John Betjeman, the Sitwells, Harold Nicolson, Frederick Ashton and Gertrude Stein - they all belonged to it. In fiction, he was famously portrayed as Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love". 'As social history and a chronicle of a mad-cap English eccentric this long awaited, much needed and beautifully written book is, to use a simple cliche, indispensable' - Alexander Waugh, "Literary Review". 'In Amory, this engaging character has found the ideal biographer. Getting the exact measure of its subject throughout, written in a dry, wittily ironic prose...the biography offers of sheer bliss' - Gilbert Adair, "Sunday Times".

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Book category Books in English The arts The arts: general issues

• Full title: Lord Berners
• Subtitle: The Last Eccentric
• Author: Mark Amory
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780571247653
• ISBN: 0571247652
• ID: 04623889
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 468 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 155 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. December 2008

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