The devil's kitchen

by Thomas Blackburn

. no dustjacket, 1975 clean copy

1000 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

Thomas Blackburn (1916-1977) had three great loves: mountaineering, English literature, and the writing which he used as a passionate sounding board for his own process of self-discovery. He published eleven books of poetry in which he spoke with an increasingly direct voice about his private demons and his spiritual quest towards an inner resolution—something which he did manage to achieve before his death. His autobiography A Clip of Steel (1969) provides a brilliant and unsparing self-portrait and his one novel, The Feast of the Wolf (1971) is also, in its way, an autobiographical study.