Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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   Skickligt om missbruk och vanföreställningar

   Den här boken är skickligt skriven och handlar om vad långvarigt substansmissbruk kan leda till. Det är nästan så man tror på Gilbert Pinford när han beskriver de hemliga meddelanden som skickas mellan rören i fartyget, rösterna som pratar om honom, de osynliga skällande hundarna samt jazzbanden som spelar nätterna igenom som ingen annan passagerare hört...

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   21 juni 2021