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Tante Brutus
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Tante Brutus

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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Chris Stewart, best-selling author of 'Driving over Lemons, ' "an exquisitely crafted novella" -

The main protagonist comes on stage immediately in the opening lines... Ana Anderssen,

Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.

The tug-of-war continues in France, at Champigny-sur-Veude, a village in Indre-et-Loire,

some fifty kilometres from Tours, the setting for the dramatic arrival of chain-smoking Ana,

Gilles' guest at the family chateau in order to do research on Chaim Soutine who was given

refuge in the area during WW2. For lovers of France, this rural setting in the 1960s is a dream, with a Citroen DS, Camel cigarettes, ashtrays with the Ricard motif.

Alan Halliday is a brilliant raconteur who skilfully interweaves fact and fiction in a very

Proustian manner, espionage, sexual encounters, art history, treachery, malice, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Lolly, Trinity College Cambridge, and the world of art dealers. Dialogue is forever witty, sarcastic and authentic, indeed hilarious, with never a dull moment.

This is a book within a book. Like Marcel Proust, the Narrator is engaged in writing the book

that he decides to publish at the end 'a novella called Tante Brutus' under the new name of

Alan Halliday!

Cynthia Gamble

Cover art Alan Halliday, drawing of a woman in ink and gouache, 1972

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 January 2024
Pages
224
ISBN
9781800169159

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Chris Stewart, best-selling author of 'Driving over Lemons, ' "an exquisitely crafted novella" -

The main protagonist comes on stage immediately in the opening lines... Ana Anderssen,

Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.

The tug-of-war continues in France, at Champigny-sur-Veude, a village in Indre-et-Loire,

some fifty kilometres from Tours, the setting for the dramatic arrival of chain-smoking Ana,

Gilles' guest at the family chateau in order to do research on Chaim Soutine who was given

refuge in the area during WW2. For lovers of France, this rural setting in the 1960s is a dream, with a Citroen DS, Camel cigarettes, ashtrays with the Ricard motif.

Alan Halliday is a brilliant raconteur who skilfully interweaves fact and fiction in a very

Proustian manner, espionage, sexual encounters, art history, treachery, malice, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Lolly, Trinity College Cambridge, and the world of art dealers. Dialogue is forever witty, sarcastic and authentic, indeed hilarious, with never a dull moment.

This is a book within a book. Like Marcel Proust, the Narrator is engaged in writing the book

that he decides to publish at the end 'a novella called Tante Brutus' under the new name of

Alan Halliday!

Cynthia Gamble

Cover art Alan Halliday, drawing of a woman in ink and gouache, 1972

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 January 2024
Pages
224
ISBN
9781800169159