Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 30/06/2010
ISBN: 9780552776905
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 225g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 30/06/2010
ISBN: 9780552776905
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 225g
RRP: £9.99
'A frighteningly good memoir'
'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'
'Germs is not only elegantly written; it is a human document of considerable power and importance'
'Pungently truthful, complex and original'
'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'