001389045 000__ 04571cam\\2200721\i\4500
001389045 001__ 1389045
001389045 003__ OCoLC
001389045 005__ 20220303003053.0
001389045 008__ 141029t20142014enkac\\\\b\\\\001\0beng\d
001389045 010__ $$a2014486141
001389045 019__ $$a860824963$$a894197791$$a1008422970
001389045 020__ $$a9780224096591$$q(hardback)
001389045 020__ $$a0224096591$$q(hardback)
001389045 020__ $$a1448105196
001389045 020__ $$a9781448105199
001389045 020__ $$a0062338943
001389045 020__ $$a9780062338945
001389045 020__ $$a006233896X
001389045 020__ $$a9780062338969
001389045 035__ $$a(OCoLC)892706637
001389045 040__ $$aNLE$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dNLE$$dNZAYP$$dYDXCP$$dNDD$$dTFW$$dZCU$$dCHVBK$$dOCLCF$$dCDX$$dGBVCP$$dOCLCQ$$dOCLCO$$dOCL$$dOCLCQ$$dOCLCO$$dNZIPP$$dTCJ$$dOCL$$dOCLCO$$dUKMGB$$dIUL$$dOCL$$dOCLCA$$dOCLCQ$$dOCLCO$$dOCLCA$$dISE
001389045 042__ $$alccopycat
001389045 043__ $$ae-uk-en
001389045 049__ $$aISEA
001389045 05000 $$aML410.B565$$bZ56 2014
001389045 08204 $$a942.0820922$$223
001389045 1001_ $$aZinovieff, Sofka,$$eauthor.
001389045 24514 $$aThe mad boy, Lord Berners, my grandmother and me /$$cSofka Zinovieff.
001389045 264_1 $$aLondon :$$bJonathan Cape,$$c2014.
001389045 264_4 $$c©2014
001389045 300__ $$axii, 436 pages :$$billustrations, portraits ;$$c24 cm
001389045 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
001389045 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
001389045 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
001389045 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 411-415) and index.
001389045 5050_ $$aList of Illustrations -- A Fish-shaped Handbag -- Behind the Rocking Horse -- Russians, Radicals and Roman Catholics -- A Delightful Youth -- Et in Arcadia Ego -- Boys and Girls -- Fiends -- Follies and Fur-lined Wombs -- The Orphan on the Top Floor -- In the City of Dreaming Dons -- Gosh I think She's Swell -- The Pram in the Hall -- Put in a Van -- 'From Catamite to Catamite' -- The Nazi -- Robert's Folly -- Purple dye -- Blood Ties -- Dust and Ashes -- The Bell and the Blue Plaque -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
001389045 520__ $$aFaringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity -- masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves -- and his homosexuality. Before the war he made Faringdon an aesthete's paradise, where exquisite food was served to many of the great minds, beauties and wits of the day. Since the early thirties his companion there was Robert Heber-Percy, twenty-eight years his junior, wildly physical, unscholarly, a hothead who rode naked through the grounds, loved cocktails and nightclubs, and was known to all as the Mad Boy. If the two men made an unlikely couple, at a time when homosexuality was illegal, the addition to the household in 1942 of a pregnant Jennifer Fry, a high society girl known to be 'fast', as Robert's wife was simply astounding. After Victoria was born the marriage soon foundered (Jennifer later married Alan Ross). Berners died in 1950, leaving Robert in charge of Faringdon, aided by a ferocious Austrian housekeeper who strove to keep the same culinary standards in a more austere age. This was the world Sofka Zinovieff, Victoria's daughter, a typical child of the sixties, first encountered at the age of seventeen. Eight years later, to her astonishment, Robert told her he was leaving her Faringdon House. Her book about Faringdon and its people is marvellously witty and full of insight, bringing to life a vanished world and the almost fantastical people who lived in it.
001389045 60010 $$aBerners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson,$$cBaron,$$d1883-1950.
001389045 60010 $$aBerners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson,$$cBaron,$$d1883-1950$$xHomes and haunts.
001389045 60010 $$aBerners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson,$$cBaron,$$d1883-1950$$xFriends and associates.
001389045 60010 $$aHeber-Percy, Robert,$$d1911-1987.
001389045 60017 $$aHeber-Percy, Robert,$$d1911-1987$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01966490
001389045 60017 $$aBerners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson,$$cBaron,$$d1883-1950.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst00113435
001389045 60017 $$aBerners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson$$d1883-1950$$2gnd$$0(DE-588)116144351
001389045 60017 $$aBerners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson,$$d1883-1950.$$2gnd$$0(DE-601)07766633X
001389045 60017 $$aHeber-Percy, Robert,$$d1911-1987.$$2gnd$$0(DE-601)707458552
001389045 648_7 $$a1900-1999$$2fast
001389045 650_7 $$aFriendship.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst00935174
001389045 650_0 $$aComposers$$zEngland$$vBiography.
001389045 650_0 $$aNovelists, English$$y20th century$$vBiography.
001389045 650_0 $$aEccentrics and eccentricities$$zEngland$$vBiography.
001389045 650_7 $$aComposers.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst00871620
001389045 650_7 $$aEccentrics and eccentricities.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst00901271
001389045 650_7 $$aHomes.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01353235
001389045 650_7 $$aNovelists, English.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01039718
001389045 651_7 $$aEngland.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01219920
001389045 651_7 $$aFaringdon$$2gnd$$0(DE-601)706584384
001389045 655_7 $$aBiographies.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
001389045 655_7 $$aBiographies.$$2lcgft
001389045 77608 $$iebook version$$z9781448105199
001389045 852__ $$bgen$$hML410.B565$$iZ56 2014
001389045 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1389045$$pGLOBAL_SET
001389045 980__ $$aBOOK
001389045 980__ $$aBIB