EAN: 9781408850954

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES FINANCIAL TIMES DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW STATESMAN SUNDAY TIMES TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR 'A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays a snapshot of grimy London and a narrative of Freud's career and rackety life and loves . Leaves the reader itching for more' SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR Though ferociously private Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver - about painting and the art world but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique electrifying biography. In Youth Feaver conjures Freud's early childhood: Sigmund Freud's grandson born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin escaping Nazi Germany in 1934. Following Freud through art school his time in the Navy during the war his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece and his return to Soho - consorting with duchesses and violent criminals out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret - Feaver traces a brilliant difficult young man's coming of age. 'Brilliant . Freud would have approved' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Superlative . packed with stories' GUARDIAN 'Anyone interested in British art needs it' ANDREW MARR NEW STATESMAN

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