{"product_id":"signatures-literary-encounters-of-a-lifetime-hardcover","title":"Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Pryce-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Pryce-Jones weaves a vivid life story through vignettes of the many famous authors--friends, acquaintances, interview subjects--who gave him personally inscribed books. In \u003ci\u003eSignatures\u003c\/i\u003e he offers a window onto the lives and work of these extraordinary people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a child, Pryce-Jones spent time at Isaiah Berlin's house. As a teenager, lunching with Bernard Berenson at I Tatti, he prompted an outburst about Parisian anti-Semitism. W. H. Auden found him at Oxford to praise his competition poem, and he later visited Auden in his loft studio in Austria. Svetlana Alliluyeva reminisced about her father, Joseph Stalin, while staying at the Pryce-Jones house in Wales. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA highbrow salon gathered in the home of Arthur Koestler, who strove to be an English gentleman and who was with Pryce-Jones in Reykjavik covering the Fischer-Spassky chess match. Saul Bellow spoke of an old friend, now a capo famiglia, promising to deal with student rioters in 1968 Chicago. After swapping houses with Pryce-Jones one summer, Jessica Mitford insisted that he would have been a Communist in the 1930s. Robert Graves challenged a quotation from Virgil, and told the Queen that she was a descendant of Muhammad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe meet V. S. Naipaul, a free spirit who understood that \"the world is what it is.\" Muriel Spark would come round for lunch with the Pryce-Joneses in Florence, enjoying conspiratorial stories about Italian politics. At his sepulchral home in Heidelberg, Albert Speer demonstrated his way of \"admitting a little to deny a great deal.\" In Isaac Singer we see generosity, candor, and mischievous humor. This is only a small sampling of the remarkable personalities who have left their signatures on a fascinating life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Pryce-Jones was born in Vienna in 1936 and studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford. His career has included spells teaching creative writing in Iowa and in California, as well as being a special correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e covering international assignments such as the Middle East wars of 1967 and 1973. He has written ten novels and twelve books of nonfiction, his most recent being \u003ci\u003eFault Lines\u003c\/i\u003e. Since 1999, he has been a senior editor of \u003ci\u003eNational Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45809402609861,"sku":"9781641770903","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/O-lr2Z2lS9781641770903.webp?v=1770943015","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/signatures-literary-encounters-of-a-lifetime-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}