A Fighting Withdrawal: The Life of Dan Davin - Writer, Soldier, Publisher
Author(s): Keith Ovenden
New Zealand Literature | Literary biography
Ovenden draws on public and private papers to paint a compelling portrait of Dan Davin, OUP's Academic Publisher. He charts one man's growth against the background of war and the literary-intellectual milieu of post-war London and Oxford. A New Zealander, Davin originally came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. During the Second World War he fought in Crete, and, later, wrote the campaign's official history. As a novelist he befriended contemporary writers such as Louis MacNeice, and Joyce Cary among others. In this fascinating biography Davin emerges as a man with a complex public and private life, beset in later life by depression and alcoholism.
Dustjacket creased at edges
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- : 0.002
- : 01 January 1996
- : 210mm X 140mm X 34mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Keith Ovenden
- : Hardback with dustjacket
- : English
- : very good
- : 492
- : 8 pp black and white plates, bibliography