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Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography Hardcover - 1995
by Mosley, Nicholas
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- Title Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography
- Author Mosley, Nicholas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First American E
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 345
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
- Date 1995-06
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1564780759.G
- ISBN 9781564780751 / 1564780759
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 20th century - Biography, Editors - Great Britain - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94037597
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Nicholas Mosley brings the unblinking probing of a scientist to bear on the workings of the writer's imagination. The result is a constantly stimulating, frequently startling, and always cheerfully unorthodox autobiography. As a novelist, biographer, editor, and screenwriter, Nicholas Mosley has always been concerned with the central paradox of writing: if by definition fiction is untrue, and biography never complete, is there a form that will enable a writer to get at the truth of a life? In Efforts at Truth Mosley scrutinizes his own life and work, but examines them as a curious observer, fascinated by the constant interaction of reality and the written word. As a life, it has been colorful, in settings ranging from the West Indies to a remote Welsh hill farm, from war action in Italy to battles with Hollywood moguls, from the Colony Room to the House of Lords. In print, the range has been as wide: editor of a controversial religious magazine, author of the acclaimed novel series Catastrophe Practice, screenwriter of his own work with Joe Losey and John Frankenheimer, biographer of his notorious father Oswald Mosley, and, in 1990, winner of the Whitbread Award for his novel Hopeful Monsters.
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- Booklist, 06/01/1995, Page 1720
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/1995, Page 449
- Library Journal, 05/01/1995, Page 97
- Publishers Weekly, 05/15/1995, Page 65