Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author(s): Sir Roy Strong
'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMESScenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record of how a citizen at the close of the second Elizabethan age observed and chronicled his own world at the turn of the century. Although it is not without tragedy - the murder of his friend Gianni Versace, and the death of his beloved wife Julia Trevelyan Oman - there is plenty to enjoy from his descriptions of Elton John's fiftieth birthday party, to a concert for the Queen Mother, and his portraits of marriage, friendship, work and his celebrated garden, The Laskett.
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 0.438
- : 31 October 2017
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 31 October 2017
- : books
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- : 560
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Sir Roy Strong