They f- -k you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with faults they had, And add some extra, just for you. —Philip Larkin, “This Be the Verse” Auberon Waugh came ...
Thank you for your letter. Would it give you comfort if I suggest you call yourself the Official Auberon Waugh Appreciation Society rather than the Unofficial Auberon Waugh Appreciation Society? I ...
Almost everywhere, attitudes to Brussels tend to harden the further right you go on the political spectrum. Waugh Jr bucked that rule, seeing Europe as a potential fortress against American cultural ...
LONDON — Auberon Waugh, acerbic son of novelist Evelyn Waugh and an accomplished author and editor in his own right, died in his sleep Tuesday night at the age of 61. He was an inveterate smoker with ...
WHO ARE THE VIOLETS NOW? by Auberon Waugh. 252 pages. Simon & Schuster. $4.95. Auberon Waugh is the son of the late Evelyn Waugh and a facile satirist in his own right (The Foxglove Saga, Path of ...
THE FOXGLOVE SAGA (252 pp.)—Auberon Waugh—Simon & Schuster ($3.95). “You are going to suffer a lot of irritation,” wrote Graham Greene to the author, “when reviewers compare you to Evelyn.” The reader ...
Auberon Waugh’s first novel, “The Foxglove Saga” (Simon & Schuster), was well received in England and makes its debut here introduced by a trio of stout literary uncles whose thwacks of friendly ...