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George Harrison: Living In The Material World offers a portrait in full of an artist who possessed the world at twenty-one and became transformed, as Paul Theroux puts it in his introduction, into a man who was «on fire within»: «His saturation in the material world drove him to seek the spiritual in things—and so his life seems a series of vanishings and reappearances, journeys there and back.» Drawing from Harrison's own photographs, letters, diaries, and memorabilia, Olivia Harrison traces the arc of Harrison's life, from his guitar-obsessed boyhood in Liverpool; to the astonishment of The Beatles years and his discovery of Indian culture and music; to his days as an independent musician, film producer, and bohemian squire. True to its subject, her book evokes patterns of experience—with carefully selected images and stories and reminiscences from Harrison's family and his extraordinary circle of friends—that reveal the roots of his art, his humour and his love of nature, the tenor of his mind and the imprint of his spirit.