The Resource Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography, Laura Thompson
Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography, Laura Thompson
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The item Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography, Laura Thompson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography, Laura Thompson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very complex." Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford's two surviving sisters, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant façade. --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781643133034
- Label
- Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography
- Title
- Life in a cold climate
- Title remainder
- Nancy Mitford : the biography
- Statement of responsibility
- Laura Thompson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very complex." Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as conversations with Mitford's two surviving sisters, acquaintances, and colleagues, prizewinning author Laura Thompson has fashioned a portrait of a contradictory and courageous woman. Approaching her subject with wit, perspicacity, and huge affection, Thompson makes her serious points lightly, eschewing clichés about the eccentricities of the Mitford clan. Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but also tells the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever-elegant façade. --
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thompson, Laura
- Dewey number
-
- 823/.914
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6025.I88
- LC item number
- Z85 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mitford, Nancy
- Women novelists, English
- Novelists, English
- Label
- Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography, Laura Thompson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-403) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- bl2019032601
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781643133034
- Lccn
- bl2019032601
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography, Laura Thompson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-403) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- bl2019032601
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781643133034
- Lccn
- bl2019032601
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Library Locations
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Charleston County Public Library - MainBorrow it68 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC, 29401, US32.7883294 -79.9309573
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Charleston County Public Library - Mt. PleasantBorrow it1133 Mathis Ferry Road, Mount Pleasant, SC, 29464, US32.816169 -79.864089
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Charleston County Public Library - St. AndrewsBorrow it1735 N. Woodmere Drive, Charleston, SC, 29407, US32.806481 -80.012994
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