Sha-sha-sha through the open windows
John Bayley, 2 March 1989
Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of ‘Horizon’
by Michael Shelden.
Hamish Hamilton, 254 pp., £15.95, February 1989,0 241 12647 9 Show More
by Michael Shelden.
Hamish Hamilton, 254 pp., £15.95, February 1989,
“... with the possibility. Probably the best account of his youthful self is in the first volume of Anthony Powell’s memoirs, Infants of the Spring. ‘He was one of those individuals – a recognised genus – who seem to have been sent into the world to be talked about. Such persons satisfy a basic human need. Connolly’s behaviour, love affairs, financial ... ”