Germs
A Memoir Of Childhood
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:30th Jun '10
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'Destined to become a classic' - Francis Wyndham
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. 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.
'A frighteningly good memoir' * London Review of Books *
'Wollheim's powers of description astound...Because of the intensity with which a remarkable man has offered us a view of his inner self, I doubt whether anyone who has read it will forget it' * Literary Review *
'Germs is not only elegantly written; it is a human document of considerable power and importance' * Independent *
'Pungently truthful, complex and original' * Guardian *
'A masterpiece - an unclassifiable work of startling originality in which the acutely sensual and confusedly cerebral experience of infancy, boyhood and adolescence is brilliantly recreated'
* Spectator *ISBN: 9780552776905
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Weight: 225g
320 pages