The Complete Book of Aunts
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The Complete Book of Aunts, by Rupert Christiansen, is an entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises and varieties.
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The Complete Book of Aunts, by Rupert Christiansen, is an entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises and varieties.
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An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. A nice aunt is an object of easy affection, at an emotional remove from the fierce, complex, passionate and difficult love that encumbers parenthood: her jollity and generosity free of the terrifying fears and responsibilities that bear down on a mother. A nasty aunt tends to be one who has had surrogate maternal status forced upon her - a subject explored by Jane Austen in Mansfield Park and by P. G. Wodehouse in The Inimitable Jeeves. But whether nice or nasty, bossy, timid, disappointed or eccentric, an aunt offers her brood of nieces and nephews another angle on the world and another insight into it. Of all our blood relations, she offers the most potential for uncomplicated friendship.The idea for this book came to Rupert Christiansen after the death of one of his own aunts, 'an admirable woman of the old school who saw it as her auntly duty to guide and cherish, as well as entertain and indulge.' His Complete Book of Aunts is a hugely entertaining and touching exploration of aunts in all their guises and varieties, culled from real-life, literary and historical sources. No book has ever previously explored this subject, which is of universal relevance and fascination.
Autoren-Porträt von Rupert Christiansen
Christiansen, RupertRupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at the universities of Cambridge and Columbia. As well as several books of cultural history, he has written about opera for many publications, including the Spectator, the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Since 1966 he has been opera critic of the Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster.
He also sits on the editorial board of Opera magazine and the jury for the Birgit Nilsson Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rupert Christiansen
- 2006, Main, 272 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 18,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571226558
- ISBN-13: 9780571226559
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Englisch
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