Super-Beast: The Mysterious Life of Saki
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As an author, the pseudonymous Saki became famous for some two hundred sketches and stories, whose surreal wit released an intoxicating savagery into the drawing-room world of Edwardian society. Even now, they define the most playfully wicked currents in the English comic imagination.
As a man, however, Hector Hugh Munro had an uncanny ability to disappear. Pioneer of the camp sensibility, conservative moralist, aesthete, soldier, sinner, hero: the few papers left in his decimated archive seem to defy biographical coherence. Oliver Soden (Masquerade) follows the tracks of an elusive genius.
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Captivating (praise for MASQUERADE) - Financial TimesAbsolutely extraordinary (praise for MASQUERADE)This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves (praise for MASQUERADE) - Daily TelegraphCompelling . . . An exceptional piece of work. The joy of Soden's biography is largely in its novelistic grasp of the telling details (praise for MICHAEL TIPPETT) - Spectator
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