A World Away

A World Away Memoir of Mervyn Peake

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Publisher's Synopsis

This account of the life of the writer and artist, Mervyn Peake, by his widow, was first published shortly after his death in 1968. The author, a talented painter in her own right, tells the story of their life and love simply and unsentimentally, and describes a gifted man's decline towards death at the hands of Parkinson's disease.

Book information

ISBN: 9780749398637
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 823.912
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: -1g