World Away: Memoir of Mervyn Peake

by Maeve Gilmore

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This account of the life of the writer and artist, Mervyn Peake, by his widow, was first published shortly after his death in 1968. The author, a talented painter in her own right, tells the story of their life and love simply and unsentimentally, and describes a gifted man's decline towards death at the hands of Parkinson's disease.
  • ISBN10 057500424X
  • ISBN13 9780575004245
  • Publish Date 18 June 1970
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 October 2003
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Gollancz
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 160
  • Language English