The Family

David-Plante

Literature & Fiction

London : Gollancz

In 1959, a young American journeys to Europe to discover how the people live and finds himself forever transformed by two people, Angela and Vincent, who introduce him to a dangerous but passionate new world

The Foreigner (Paladin Books)

British & Irish

Paladin

Set in Boston in the sixties, Daniel Francoeur is featured in this exploration of Catholicism and sexual obsession and of the conflicting demands and constraints they impose

The Catholic

Contemporary

Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three: Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, Germaine Greer

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Futura

The writer David Plante has kept a diary of his life among the artistic elite for over half a century. It is an extraordinary document, both deeply personal and a rare window onto disappearing worlds. This extracted memoir spans the 1980s, a period of exploration and growth for Plante and his lover Nikos Stangos, a partnership which will endure for forty years. David Plante and Nikos Stangos first made a life together in London in the mid-sixties, when as newcomers they were introduced by Stephen Spender to his circle, connections criss-crossing, dazzlingly, through the air of their adopted city, interconnecting so many admired figures. Now navigating worlds beyond London - from a house-share with Germaine Greer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a trip to Jerusalem with Philip Roth; from the loss of parents to the growing spectre of AIDS; and in New York, Umbria, Lucca, the Aegean and rural Ireland - these are stories of expanding horizons and of a deepening and developing love: the challenges of monogamy, the strains of separation, of a growing maturity and awareness - and of what it is to belong. Worlds Apart is a poignant, moving portrait of a relationship and a luminous evocation of a world of writers, poets, artists and thinkers.

Worlds Apart: A Memoir

Arts & Literature

Bloomsbury Publishing

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