The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
by Michael Davie (editor)
A lot of it is about the absolutely amazing quantities that he drank. It’s full of hugely politically incorrect and almost self-parodic episodes but it’s also brilliant at catching the moment that life is turned into art.
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