cover image Bernard Shaw V 1: The Search for Love (1856-1898)

Bernard Shaw V 1: The Search for Love (1856-1898)

Michael Holroyd. Vintage Books USA, $15.95 (3pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72505-3

``Holroyd, biographer of Lytton Strachey and Augustus John, produces here a biography of the highest order--generous, poised, utterly fascinating, Shavian in its unmasking of Shaw's deceits, attuned to G.B.S.'s complexity,'' praised PW , stating: ``This is a Shaw for our time.'' Photos. (July)