Life at the Pastry Board
Stefan Collini: V.S. Pritchett, 4 November 2004
V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life
by Jeremy Treglown.
Chatto, 308 pp., £25, October 2004,9780701173227 Show More
by Jeremy Treglown.
Chatto, 308 pp., £25, October 2004,
“... he was born in 1900, when Victoria was still queen, and he died little more than a month before Tony Blair became prime minister. Pritchett’s family bumped along on that uneasy late Victorian border between the respectable artisans and the aspiring lower middle class. His father, a man with a limitless capacity for financial disaster, belonged to the ... ”