Did You Really Shoot the Television? A Family Fable
✍ Scribed by Max, Hastings
- Book ID
- 107493551
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007357116
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays and essays, and penned an enchanting memoir of his own Victorian childhood. His great-uncle was an African hunter who wrote poetry and became one of Max's heroes. The author tells a richly picaresque story, featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities from Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster, who became Anne Scott-James's third husband. 'All families are dysfunctional', Anne asserted impenitently to Max, but the Hastingses managed to be more dysfunctional than most. His father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TV's legendary Tonight programme, while his mother edited 'Harper's Bazaar', became a famous columnist and wrote best-selling gardening books. Here, the author brings together this remarkable cast of forebears,...