Sandel

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Review 'Here is a controlled and beautifully written love story . . . this is a superb stylistic feat.' --New Statesman'Mr Stewart has really succeeded with this young character, and in depicting a love which truly exists and is not despicable.' --The Sunday Telegraph'The writing is always intelligent, its sensual quality surprisingly beautiful.' --The Times About the Author Angus Stewart was born in 1936, the son of John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, the novelist and Oxford academic who wrote bestselling crime fiction as Michael Innes. He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and later at Christ Church Oxford. Stewart's first published work was The Stile (1965), a short story which won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize. His first novel, Sandel, which is in many respects autobiographical, came in 1968 and is now a cult classic, recently commanding very high prices on the internet. Before and after its publication, Stewart lived for long periods in Morocco. In 2016 his personal memoir, Tangier (1977), was reissued in a new edition, including photographs by the author. His experiences there explain a great deal about the author of Sandel, and his exposure to Tangier's legendary artistic community, which included Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Francis Bacon, Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight, Rupert Croft-Cooke, Alec Waugh, William Burroughs, Gavin Maxwell, Francis Bacon, Joe Orton and others, prepared the way for his second novel, Snow in Harvest (1969). Sense and Inconsequence: Satirical Verses followed in 1972, with a Foreword by W H Auden. A third novel, The Wind Cries All Ways, which includes a startling description of the author's incarceration in a Tangier mental asylum, has yet to be published. After his mother's death in 1979 Stewart returned to live in England, and died in Oxfordshire twenty years later.