{"product_id":"9781408850954","title":"The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Feaver, William \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBiography: general\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 September 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 704 pages\u003cbr\u003e154 x 236 x 60 | 1080g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR‘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’ SUNDAY TIMES, ART BOOK OF THE YEARThough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Youth, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Brilliant … Freud would have approved’ DAILY TELEGRAPH‘Superlative … packed with stories’ GUARDIAN'Anyone interested in British art needs it' ANDREW MARR, NEW STATESMAN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55490650472834,"sku":"9781408850954","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781408850954.jpg?v=1753731612","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9781408850954","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}