Harry Mathews

Author

1930-02-14

Books by Harry Mathews

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I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
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My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
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