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Facades

John Pearson

1989528 pagesabout 8–12 hours
1989
first published
  • 1978Macmillan · 534 pages · ENGISBN 9780333254752
  • 1979Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · 534 pages · ENGISBN 9780151827039
  • 1980Fontana · 544 pagesISBN 9780006357292
  • 1989Papermac · 534 pages · ENGISBN 9780333483770
  • 2011Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · ENGISBN 9781448207800
  • 2012Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · ENGISBN 9781448208043
  • 1980Harvest Books · 528 pages · ENGISBN 9780156826761

Façades details the lives of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, collectively and individually they influenced the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and they were never far from controversy. With as much attention paid to both the private and public aspects of their lives, this biography captures the manifest intrigue of one of England's strangest and most flamboyant families, and the whole host of fascinating characters from T.S Eliot to Gertrude Stein, with whom their paths intersect.

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