{"product_id":"lives-of-lucian-freud-youth-1922-1968","title":"Lives Of Lucian Freud Youth 1922-1968 By Feaver, William","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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’ \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES, \u003c\/i\u003eART BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYouth\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Brilliant … Freud would have approved’ \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Superlative … packed with stories’ \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eAnyone interested in British art needs it'' ANDREW MARR,\u003ci\u003e NEW STATESMAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57552893378942,"sku":"NW9781408850954","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781408850954.jpg?v=1783232387","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/lives-of-lucian-freud-youth-1922-1968","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}