Brief Lives.
"I simply raise the curtain on the human comedy I have witnessed, and present what I have seen, and heard, often in whispers and asides": First edition of Paul Johnson's Brief Lives
Brief Lives.
JOHNSON, Paul.
$40.00
Item Number: 145153
Hutchinson: London, 2010.
First edition of this personal portrait of the twentieth century. Octavo, original black boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author portrait by Catrina Bovill.
Composed of over two hundred written portraits and humorous analyses, 'Brief Lives' is a uniquely insightful look into recent history through an intimately personal lens.
