Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig
Partly based on hours of taped conversations with the artist and his circle, and drawing on interviews with those who knew Freud intimately including many girlfriends, models, dealers and bookmakers Breakfast with Lucian is an intimate portrait of the artist as a young and old man.
"Geordie Greig has written a gripping, elegant and original book, shapely and full of unexpected matterIt will surely establish him as a master biographer." -- V. S. Naipaul
"Geordie Greig has written an extraordinary, candid book which is at times intensely shocking and at other times even more intensely moving." -- Antonia Fraser
"Insightful, gossipy, funny, a bit shocking… The most entertaining biography I have read in a long time." -- Philip Kerr * Daily Mail *
"Breakfast with Lucian is a superb, flawlessly crafted portrait of about as messy a life as was ever lived...out of which emerged the greatest British painter of the past one hundred years." -- Tom Wolfe
"A must for lovers of that extraordinary artist." * Sunday Telegraph *
"Geordie Greig has written an extraordinary, candid book which is at times intensely shocking and at other times even more intensely moving." -- Antonia Fraser
"Insightful, gossipy, funny, a bit shocking… The most entertaining biography I have read in a long time." -- Philip Kerr * Daily Mail *
"Breakfast with Lucian is a superb, flawlessly crafted portrait of about as messy a life as was ever lived...out of which emerged the greatest British painter of the past one hundred years." -- Tom Wolfe
"A must for lovers of that extraordinary artist." * Sunday Telegraph *
Geordie Greig is the Editor of the Mail on Sunday. He was previously the Editor of the London Evening Standard and Editor of Tatler. He lives in London and is married to a Texan with whom he has three children. His last book was The Kingmaker, the story of his grandfather's friendship with King George VI.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224096850 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224096850 |
| Title | Breakfast with Lucian |
| Author | Geordie Greig |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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