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Title

Long journey to the border : a life of John Mulgan / Vincent O'Sullivan.

Author

O'Sullivan, Vincent

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.

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Description

368 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Author of the classic novel Man Alone, John Mulgan emerges from this ... biography as a man who spoke for the generation that grew up between the wars, overshadowed by one and matured in another. From one perspective he was a glamorous figure - handsome, gifted, good at whatever he took up. From another the darker threads began to dominate - from the sharp political concerns that saw little to celebrate, the commitment to ordinary decencies that he felt even war would not necessarily preserve, to his final years in Greece, the country that confirmed his deepest values yet helped provoke the final decision to take his own life. ..."--Back cover.

Subject

• Mulgan, John, 1911-1945
• Authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Biography
• New Zealanders > Greece > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-357) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. 'It's a fine, free country' -- 2. 'Not a bad little town' -- 3. 'There's only one Oxford' -- 4. 'What a game ... ' -- 5. Life's so damn transitory' -- 6. 'A desert of realism' -- 7. A life 'I'd not like to have missed' -- 8. 'Cairo by nightfall' -- Postscript -- Mulgan's publications -- Manuscript sources.

ISBN

014301871X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004445727

OCLC

• 58468600
• SCSB-10518198

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library