Dimensions
126 x 198 x 22mm
Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of the century. And yet he was never interested in exploring his own family's history. His parents' death in the 1980s, however, left an unexpected vacuum which he gradually felt the need to fill with their stories, his narrative.This, in his fashion, is Michael Holroyd's autobiography, a biography of a biographer and a continuation of his never-ending love affair with human nature. Part detective story, part family saga and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery, Basil Street Blues is an entrancing and elegiac story, startlingly funny, profoundly moving: a very English tragi-comedy.
