Germs A Memoir of Childhood |
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| Author:
| Wollheim, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-552-77690-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Limited
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| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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The son of affluent parents - a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless 'Gaiety Girl' mother he came to regret loathing - Richard Wollheim grew up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s. Germs is his account of those years. It is a book like no other; a remarkable exploration of childhood by one of the English-speaking world's most distinguished postwar thinkers.
The son of affluent parents - a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless 'Gaiety Girl' mother he came to regret loathing - Richard Wollheim grew up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s. Germs is his account of those years. It is a book like no other; a remarkable exploration of childhood by one of the English-speaking world's most distinguished postwar thinkers.