James Lord
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Highlights the lives and achievements of such notable men as the writers Harold Acton and Jean Cocteau and the artists Balthus and Giacometti.
James Lord has created another series of spirited, witty, profoundly moving portraits. He begins with Harold Acton, the writer and aesthete whose greatest achievement was his own personality and whose later years were swallowed up in the maintenance of his parents' grand villa outside Florence. Lord takes...