Son and Lover: The Young D.H. Lawrence / Edition 1

by Philip Callow

Overview

Lawrence's growth to maturity was a painful and traumatic business, the impulses of the young lover constantly thwarted by the self-doubt of the mother's son. Philip Callow captures the extraordinary drama of Lawrence's life from 1885, the year of his birth, to 1919 when he quit England. In rich and intimate detail, Mr. Callow recreates the half-rural, half-industrial world of the English Midlands where Lawrence grew up and which haunted his imagination all his life; he traces Lawrence's relationships with women, particularly his dominating mother, his first love Jessie Chambers, and earthy Frieda, his partner in a stormy marriage. And he shows how Lawrence was able to transmute the contradictions of his personality into the stuff of art. "A surprising tale of metamorphosis which Mr. Callow re-creates better than any previous Lawrence biographer."—Julian Moynihan. "A happy balance of insight and sympathy.... His achievement is to let us see [Lawrence's] impulses and passions from the inside."—Margaret Drabble.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780929587523
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	02/01/1991
Edition description:	1st Elephant paperback ed
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.68(w) x 8.61(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Philip Callow follows this biography of Lawrence's early years with Body of Truth. Mr. Callow, himself a novelist, poet, and biographer, has also written lives of Chekhov, Cézanne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, and Van Gogh, all published to critical acclaim. Mr. Callow lives and writes in England.

What People are Saying About This

Margaret Drabble

Philip Callow's acheivement is to let us see Lawrence's impulses and passions from the inside, without censure or praise.

Isobel Murray

I have rarely read a biography which did so much to explain its subject and his work.

A Alvarez

There is an aroused, never quite defined current of emotion running under the prose which ensures that the story, however familiar by now, remains consistently readable.

Editorial Reviews

Philip Callow's acheivement is to let us see Lawrence's impulses and passions from the inside, without censure or praise.

Margaret Drabble

I have rarely read a biography which did so much to explain its subject and his work.

Isobel Murray

There is an aroused, never quite defined current of emotion running under the prose which ensures that the story, however familiar by now, remains consistently readable.

A Alvarez