John Gross era figlio di un medico ebreo che esercitava a Mile End durante la seconda guerra mondiale. I suoi genitori erano figli di immigrati, immersi nella lingua e nelle tradizioni di un passato europeo, ma fuori casa è cresciuto in un mondo molto inglese di scuole e libri. Ripensando alla sua infanzia, riflette su questa doppia eredità. La ricchezza delle parole yiddish, i rituali della religione contrapposti alla vita quotidiana dell'East End, dove i gangster erano eroi e i pazienti si presentavano alla porta a tutte le ore. Eppure sullo sfondo si trova l'ombra dell'antisemitismo e dell'Olocausto. A Double Thread è un quadro meravigliosamente vivido di una Londra perduta e di una cultura scomparsa, ma è anche la storia di un ragazzo fantasioso che scopre la propria strada, attraverso libri, film e scuola, lontano dall'East End verso le nuove libertà di una vita letteraria.
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John Gross was theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph and a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement. For a number of years he was also a staff writer for the New York Times, in New York. His other works include the classic study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters, and the widely acclaimed Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend and he edited several anthologies, among them The Oxford Book of Essays and The Oxford Book of English Prose. He died in 2011.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A fascinating and unusual memoir of growing up in London's East End and a profound reflection on living with two separate yet entwined legacies, Jewish and English.John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet outside the home he grew up in a very English world of schools and books. Looking back on his childhood he reflects on this double inheritance. The richness of Yiddish words, the rituals of religion set against the daily life of the East End, where gangsters were heroes and patients turned up on the doorstep at all hours. Yet in the background lies the shadow of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. A Double Thread is a marvellously vivid picture of a lost London and a vanished culture but it is also the story of an imaginative boy discovering his own path, through books andfilms and school - away from the East End into the new freedoms of a literary life. John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. A Double Thread is a marvellously vivid picture of a lost London and a vanished culture but it is also the story of an imaginative boy discovering his own path, through books andfilms and school - away from the East End into the new freedoms of a literary life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780099422266
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