Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount
A novel in which the narrator first meets the bewildering Joseph Dudgeon Follows when they are fellow-patients at the peculiar seaside clinic run by Dr Maintenon-Smith, the self-styled Napoleon of Asthma, and is alternately humiliated and betrayed by his exasperating friend.
Mount, Ferdinand: - Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and two grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780749310646 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749310642 |
| Title | Of Love and Asthma |
| Author | Ferdinand Mount |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1992-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Hawthornden Prize 1992 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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