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Product Identifiers
PublisherVallentine Mitchell Publishers
ISBN-101803710292
ISBN-139781803710297
eBay Product ID (ePID)14057267550
Product Key Features
Number of Pages330 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameChapters of Accidents : a Writer's Memoir
Publication Year2022
SubjectGeneral, Literary
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlexander Baron
Subject AreaSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period." --John Williams, The Guardian
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal823.914
Synopsis'We have waited a long time for this war's All Quiet on the Western Front, ' wrote the critic V.S. Pritchett. 'Here It is.' He was reviewing the 1948 novel From the City From the Plough by Alexander Baron (1917-1999). With its success, Baron became a full-time writer. His best-known later novels include The Human Kind (1953), The Lowlife (1963), and King Dido (1969). Between the 1950s and 1980s he also wrote many film and television scripts. Here Baron recounts the experiences of his childhood and youth that shaped him as a writer and provided subject matter for his novels. He evokes the sights, sounds, and aromas surrounding him growing up in a Jewish family in Hackney, East London, in the 1920s. Later, aware of the rising fascist threat, Baron was drawn to left-wing politics, becoming a leader of Labour's youth organisation. Although not formally a member, he also worked secretly for the Communist Party as an organiser and propagandist. With World War Two his life changed again. A keen solider, he fought with the Pioneer Corps in Sicily, Italy, and northern France. After a hard transition to post-war life, he worked at Unity Theatre in London while writing his breakthrough novel., From the late 1940s until the 1980s Alexander Baron (1917-1999) wrote a series of novels and a many film and television scripts. In this volume Baron recounts the experiences of his childhood and youth that shaped him as a writer and provided subject matter for his novels.
LC Classification NumberPR6003.A745
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