End of an Old Song - Softcover
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John Dick Scott, born in Lanarkshire in 1917, was educated at Edinburgh University where he took an honours degree in History. He became Assistant Principal at the Ministry of Aircraft Production in London during the war, and went on to join the Cabinet Office as an official war historian in 1944. He was Literary Editor of The Spectator from 1953-1956, he went to America in 1963 to become editor of the World Bank's periodical Finance and Development. Scott published his first short novel, The Cellar, in 1947, followed by The Margin in 1949. Three years later 'a love story' appeared called The Way to Glory, followed by The End of an Old Song in 1954. His last novel, A Pretty Penny, was published in 1963.
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'In Alastair Kerr, the central figure of this novel, Mr Scott goes right to the heart of the new ruling classes. Alastair's transformation from a village boy into the very embodiment of contemporary careerism is brilliantly told.' Observer
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