Publisher's Synopsis
This book penetrates the facade of this most bizarre and flamboyant of all literary families - the Sitwells. As poets, style-setters, publicists of the modern movement and scourge of the philistine, their impact was as immense as it was unique.;John Pearson has written "Bluebird and the Dead Lake", "The Persuasion Industry", "Arena", "The Profession of Violence", "The Life of Ian Fleming", "Edward the Rake" and "Stags and Serpents".