Half an Arch: A MemoirHalf An Arch is the compelling autobiography of one of the most distinctive English writers of the late twentieth century, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy. In The Rise and Fall of the English Nanny, The Public School Phenomenon, and Doctors, Gathorne-Hardy explored three apparently familiar institutions with unprecedented originality and depth. Now the biographer of writer and adventurer Gerald Brenan and American sexologist Alfred Kinsey brings the same rigour, perception and sensitivity to bear on the story of his own life, as he chronicles, vividly but without sentimentality, the brutal decline in the fortunes of the clever and colourful Gathorne-Hardy family in the aftermath of two world wars. |
Contents
Section 1 | 7 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 11 |
Section 4 | 13 |
Section 5 | 77 |
Section 6 | 112 |
Section 7 | 112 |
Section 8 | 112 |
Section 13 | 171 |
Section 14 | 240 |
Section 15 | 240 |
Section 16 | 240 |
Section 17 | 240 |
Section 18 | 240 |
Section 19 | 240 |
Section 20 | 240 |
Section 9 | 112 |
Section 10 | 112 |
Section 11 | 112 |
Section 12 | 112 |
Section 21 | 240 |
Section 22 | 261 |
Section 23 | 317 |
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