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Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a "Gaiety Girl" mother; together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar) to the grand houses and hotels that punctuated the landscape of Wollheim's early years. "Germs" is his account of that time, of the years he spent adoring his charming but distant father; of his regret for loathing his beautiful, mindless mother. Told in prose that with hypnotic ease moves from deadpan comedy to poignant loneliness, "Germs" is already a classic work of memoir.

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• Full title: Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
• Author: Richard Wollheim
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 263
• EAN: 9781593761257
• ISBN: 1593761252
• ID: 12339179
• Publisher: SHOEMAKER & HOARD
• Weight: 463 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 138 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: November 2006

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