{"product_id":"9781408850954-lives-of-lucian-freud-youth-1922-1968","title":"The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a snapshot of grimy London and a narrative of Freud’s career and rackety life and loves … Leaves the reader itching for more’ \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES, \u003c\/i\u003eART BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver – about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYouth\u003c\/i\u003e, Feaver conjures Freud’s early childhood: Sigmund Freud’s grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934. Following Freud through art school, his time in the Navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho – consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret – Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Brilliant … Freud would have approved’ \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Superlative … packed with stories’ \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eAnyone interested in British art needs it' ANDREW MARR,\u003ci\u003e NEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944010756193,"sku":"9781408850954","price":20.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27129082.jpg?v=1721549458","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408850954-lives-of-lucian-freud-youth-1922-1968","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}