In This Dark House A Memoir |
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| Author:
| Kehoe, Louise |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8052-4122-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1995 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Schocken |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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"In This Dark House is a riveting memoir of a daughter's search to uncover the true identity of a mysterious father whose secretive past extends long shadows on a family's life. In 1939, at the pinnacle of an eminent career as an avant-garde architect, Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin, not yet forty years old, stunned the British art world by leaving his thriving practice in London and moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural England they called World's End." "Only after his...
More Description"In This Dark House is a riveting memoir of a daughter's search to uncover the true identity of a mysterious father whose secretive past extends long shadows on a family's life. In 1939, at the pinnacle of an eminent career as an avant-garde architect, Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin, not yet forty years old, stunned the British art world by leaving his thriving practice in London and moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural England they called World's End." "Only after his death at the age of eighty-eight did Louise begin slowly to discover the tragic truth he had been hiding all his life - a truth that would become the heart of her own. In this extraordinary memoir Louise Kehoe gives us a haunting account of her recovery of self in the revelation of her father's secret - an unforgettable story of lost and found."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved