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...George Bernard Shaw of Michael Holroyd's biography, which takes the playwright up to age 42 in the twilight of the 19th century, hardly seems likely to become one of the most lionized men of the 20th century. Yet this portrait, a dozen years in the making, in the end enhances Shaw's achievements. In place of the glib rhetorician, Holroyd poignantly brings into view the shy, resentful, self-thwarting youth who created the persona of G.B.S. Ashamed of his scandalous and impecunious family, embarrassed by his own awkward ways with peers, employers and especially women, yearning for a position...
...Holroyd subtitles this volume, the first of a projected three, The Search for Love. It ends, fittingly, with Shaw's marriage to heiress Charlotte Payne- Townshend in 1898. By then Shaw had published many of the plays that ensure his reputation today, including Mrs. Warren's Profession, You Never Can Tell and Arms and the Man, each of which has had a major New York City production within the past three years. He had already abandoned a prodigious journalistic career as an essayist and a critic of art, theater and music -- although he insisted his dramas too were a form...
...influential of this century's literary circles, the Bloomsbury group. He was also a homosexual who was incapable of sustaining an intimate relationship with any of his male lovers. Carrington was a painter of modest gifts who gave him constancy despite having, as Strachey's biographer Michael Holroyd put it, a "solitary and promiscuous nature, like that of a cat." Indeed, so intense was her necessarily platonic devotion that she committed suicide shortly after he died in 1932 rather than go on without...
...Nancy Holroyd and Femando Amo--the Willow, 699 Broadway, Somerville...
...Nancy Holroyd, Art Lillard and Spring--the Willow, 699 Broadway, Somerville...