Stuart Holroyd, Contraries

Antoni Diller (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1975

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Memoir

Resources

In his memoir Contraries Stuart Holroyd relates what happened to him during a period of some 14 months at the end of the 1950s. Ready for a serious love affair, after a failed marriage and a series of casual relationships, he met Carol. As the relationship started turning sour, she became pregnant. Meanwhile, he had fallen in love with Sue Rowland. Most of the book deals with the repercussions of these events set against the background of Holroyd’s association with the Angry Young Men at a time when their notoriety and influence were in decline.

Contraries opens in the autumn of 1958 with a description of Carol, a 22-year-old, would-be actress. Holroyd was 24 at the time he met her with a broken marriage and some d…

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Citation: Diller, Antoni. "Contraries". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 December 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35244, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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