Review, buy Novelists, Poets & Playwrights: Prince Charming: A Memoir, Feminine Gospels, Two Shakespearean Actors, Dog Years: A Memoir, Byron: A Literary Life (Macmillan Literary Lives), The Search for the Panchen Lama, Homer: Poet of the Iliad, How Joyce Wrote "Finnegans Wake": A Chapter-by-chapter Genetic Guide (Irish Studies in Literature & Culture): A Chapter-by-chapter Genetic Guide (Irish Studies in Literature & Culture), The Hidden Houses of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, The Radical Field: An Introduction to the Work of Kenneth White (Sandstone Highliners), Truman Capote-Enfant Terrible, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Bukowski and the Beats, Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John, Arthur Hugh Clough: Everyman Poetry, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, First Boredom Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin, The Journals of John Fowles: v. 2, Anthony Trollope: An Autobiography (Oxford World's Classics)

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Prince Charming: A Memoir (Faber and Faber)

Authors

Christopher Logue

Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-11-05
Dewey code: 920
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £0.40

Review Prince Charming: A Memoir / Faber and Faber:

Christopher Logue has had an extraordinary and varied career. After turbulent schooldays he was court-martialled out of the army for illegally being in possession of Pay books, and spent two years in a boot camp-except this was no ordinary boot-camp, but the Crusader castle of Acre. He sat in a dungeon and read Shakespeare. Later he lived in Paris and wrote pornography for a while, including such unforgettable works as Lust-which he doesn't recommend. Later still he was imprisoned again for his involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and joined Private Eye producing the True Stories and Pseud's Corner columns for decades. His most important achievements have always been in poetry, though: his own work, and his brilliant, universally acclaimed translations of Homer. Logue is so honest, so hard on himself and his (admittedly plentiful) faults, that it can sometimes make you wince. But the honesty is also what makes this a brilliant self-portrait of a man at odds with the world, a natural drifter and bohemian, somehow contriving to survive in a difficult age, and produce some magnificent poetry along the way. -Christopher Hart.

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