Alva's Boy

Author(s): COLLINS Alan

Biography & Memoir

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.

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General Fields

  • : 9781876462666
  • : Ford Street Publishing
  • : Ford Street Publishing
  • : September 2008
  • : 230mm X 155mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 180
  • : 1008
  • : Paperback
  • : COLLINS Alan