Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past-guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their lives-gradually yields clues to a constellation of startling events and eccentric characters:
| ISBN: | 9780393343137 |
| Publication date: | 10th October 2011 |
| Author: | Holroyd, Michael |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Ebook |
Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past-guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their lives-gradually yields clues to a constellation of startling events and eccentric characters: a slow decline from English nobility on one side, a dramatic Scandinavian ancestry on the other.
Basil Street Blues features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Basil Street Blues was written by Holroyd, Michael and published by W. W. Norton & Company