Journalist's Odyssey - Hardcover

A Journalist's Odyssey: [selected journalism]. With a personal recollection by Robert Kee and biographical notes by Hermione O'Donovan

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper slightly marked. Tipped in at the front free endpaper an autograph letter signed from the author, 2pp. 8vo, Catholic Herald, 7 January 1981, to "Father Boyd", thanking him for his remarks on his column (the author died the same year). Patrick O'Donovan (1918-1981) was a special correspondent for The Observer, with, wrote his editor David Astor, "an instinct for the meaning of events. As a young foreign correspondent, he recognized as a positive force the tidal-wave quality of Mao's revolutionary war sweeping through Canton when others were treating it as just another shambles. At the other end of his register, he could describe formal occasions such as a state funeral, or prosaic events like a school sports day or even the Boat Race (which he reported from the streets of Hammersmith) in a way that both amused and moved. In style and humour, he had an affinity with the poet John Betjeman and his written words, like Betjeman's, always seemed intended to be read aloud.". Artikel-Nr. 32M100326

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