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Alison Light - Red, Red Robin, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Red, Red Robin

My Long Goodbye to Home

Av Alison Light

152 kr

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'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' David Kynaston'Fascinating social history' Clare Chambers'Light paints a fantastically vivid picture of the era' Sunday TimesAlison Light conjures her girlhood growing up in 1950s Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of war. Drawing on the souvenirs of her childhood - from her doll's house to her teenage diaries, her comics and schoolbooks - she uses her own story to tell a richly textured social history of post-war England: its popular culture and music, its language and humour.Lyrical and politically astute, in Red, Red Robin one of our most compelling writers evokes a child's-eye view of the past through the lens of her adult reflections, querying too how we document that past and the nature of memory itself.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-05-06
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 317 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: Orion Publishing Co
  • ISBN: 9781474619929
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Alison Light is a writer and critic. Her book A Radical Romance won the PEN Ackerley prize for memoir. Her other books include the much-acclaimed Mrs Woolf and the Servants and Common People: The History of an English Family, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is an Honorary Fellow in History and English at Pembroke College Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Painfully honest and often very funny . . . poignant. It is a wonderful summoning of the period and the gendered politics of the time. A beautifully crafted and absorbing account of class, family, childhood, language and what Light calls the 'rough edges' of a life in history

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