Alva's Boy
Author(s): COLLINS Alan
This book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood over a time span from 1928 to the mid-forties. In some telling, names of people, places and dates have been changed. Mercifully, those named who are or were of a repellent nature have long since 'gone to God'. The stories present incidents from the life of one person, the first-person narrator. The memoir is purposely unsentimental. The writer has worked hard to circumvent cheap emotion. Some readers might find it confronting. The linked stories encompass a child's unsparingly honest observations as he is buffeted by events which range from indifference and naked cruelty to sparkling life-affirming exuberance.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Ford Street Publishing
- : Ford Street Publishing
- : 01 September 2008
- : 230mm X 155mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : 180
- : 920.71
- : 1008
- : Paperback
- : COLLINS Alan