Mervyn Peake, a Life: My Eyes Mint Gold

by Malcolm Yorke

Mervyn Peake was born in 1911 in revolutionary China, where his parents were missionaries. He later drew on his exotic childhood and its often savage images in his adult creations. Throughout his life, he was a bohemian: as a student and then, later, in an artists' colony on the island of Sark, a place to which he often returned when city life became too stressful or expensive. Teaching in London, he fell in love with one of his students, Maeve...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585672114
• ISBN13: 9781585672110
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"