Once wrote a critically acclaimed book of poetry. Let me here assure any future readers that the subject does not obsess me that it was the consolation of a brief exile and that I do not need further documents.ĭennis Barlow: 28. Since the appearance of this book many kindly people have taken the trouble to send me additional, bizarre information about the world of morticians. I should like to thank Lady Milbanke (as she then was) for setting my first steps on this pleasant path Mr Cyril Connolly for correcting my English and Mrs Reginald Allen for correcting my American. It was some time before the book took shape. I have attributed that rare elation to the hero of this book, making him in the process a poet instead of a novelist. I experienced there what I believe to be the authentic appetite of a writer on the track of a story. A large car came daily to take me to the studio daily I directed it to the graveyard where I spent long periods of delight penetrating the arcana of that lustrous trade.
‘Smog’ had not then developed but the sprawling, nondescript ugliness of Los Angeles, combined with the awful inefficiency of studio and hotel, would have spoiled our pleasure in the expedition had we not early been introduced by an Australian friend to the unsurpassed glories of the cemetery which I have here named ‘Whispering Glades’. I did not want a film to be made but during the privations of the Attlee-Cripps regime I was glad to escape from England. Shortly after it I was invited with my wife to Hollywood where a producer expressed the wish to film Brideshead Revisited.
The print edition is formatted with extra spacing to allow you to take notes, but since you can’t benefit from that in the ebook version, we’ve added in some sneaky extra goodies here for you instead, such as exclusive chapter questions at the end.īefore the second World War I had briefly visited New York and Washington. This book is an Inkprint Notable edition, which means it has been designed specifically as a study aid.
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