Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a Gaiety Girl” mother; together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar) to the grand houses and hotels that punctuated the landscape of Wollheim's early years. Germs is his account of that time, of the years he spent adoring his charming but distant father; of his regret for loathing his beautiful, mindless mother. Told in prose that with hypnotic ease moves from deadpan comedy to poignant loneliness, Germs is already a classic work of m…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59376-125-7
- EAN: 9781593761257
- Produktnummer: 19415930
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 263 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B13.8 cm x D2.2 cm 463 g
- Gewicht: 463
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