The biography of C. S. Forester, author of the Hornblower series and many others. As told by his son and privately published.
Novelist & Storyteller, The Life of C. S. Forester
by John Forester, --C. S. Forester, a great storyteller, created his own
l public life as his most successful fiction. You who read his books with
pleasure will recognize his ability to persuade you that he is
describing reality. Forester had developed and honed this storytelling
skill from childhood, and he used it throughout his life to manipula![]() te
others, to persuade others to share his view of who he really was: the
embodiment of the eighteenth-century man of reason. In a way, Hornblower
was Forester as he wished that he had the courage to be, but knew he
couldn't be. However, since Forester was both a storyteller and a
writer, both of published works and private letters, and since he was
both a part of his parents' family and had a family of his own, there is
sufficient evidence to put together the real story of his life and
character, his works and his personal relationships. The real story
discloses not only why his books are as they are, but also the effect of
successful, self-centered storytelling on those closest to him. "I have
written what is both a biography of my father and a
father-and-son tale of illusion and disillusion." -- John Forester.
The resultant biography provides an intense scrutiny of a complex,
secretive, and manipulative man who wrote some of the most popular
fiction of the middle twentieth century. Privately published, John Forester, 6X9
inches, (TWO VOLS.), signed and numbered, pages 826. P,
Your Price 85.00 , B00916. |
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