PETER FULLER - Marches Past

London England, Chatto & Windus, 1986. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0701130377 Hardback This remarkable autobiographical memoir establishes Peter Fuller as one of our finest writers. Taking two dates from his diaries - March 28th and March 29th - he interweaves his accounts of those two days over a four year period, and juxtaposes the events, thoughts, feeling and preoccupations of each of those days. He reveals his own childhood, his fascination with various glassed-in pet creatures, his struggles with his Baptist father and his own growing awareness; against these he counterpoints the struggles of the present - his work, his thoughts on art and politics, his marriage, fatherhood, and the psychoanalysis that changed his life. An irresistible and superbly evocative mixture of anecdote and intellect, of personal and global reflections, it is beautifully written, intensely moving, and has all the haunting originality of outstanding autobiographical writing.