All Else is Folly is a superb work. Did Acland write an more novels or memoirs or did he write himself out artistically with this book? On a matter of curiosity, the only other photo of Acland I can find besides the one above is this one: http://brianbusby.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/remembering-peregrine-acland.html taken from a newspaper archive by the look of it. Were his fears about mutilation fulfilled? If so, it would explain his tendency to work in the background - as an advisor or secretary - or was withdrawal and privacy a family trait, perhaps
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
All Else is Folly is a superb work. Did Acland write an more novels or memoirs or did he write himself out artistically with this book? On a matter of curiosity, the only other photo of Acland I can find besides the one above is this one: http://brianbusby.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/remembering-peregrine-acland.html taken from a newspaper archive by the look of it. Were his fears about mutilation fulfilled? If so, it would explain his tendency to work in the background - as an advisor or secretary - or was withdrawal and privacy a family trait, perhaps
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