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A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation

Autor Alison Light
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2019
WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE
'Remarkable, moving, illuminating. A memoir of cauterising honesty. This is a book that deserves to be widely read'Spectator
Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would be dead.
Theirs was an attraction of opposites - he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements.
She tells of moving into Raphael's cluttered 18th-century house in Spitalfields and into his equally full, unconventional life; of the whirlwind of change outside their door which brutally transformed London's old East End districts; of being widowed at 41, and finding inspiration in her friendship with Raphael's mother. Finally she reflects on the power of mourning and how it shapes a life. Through its frank and touching account of a marriage between two very different people, it celebrates the capacity we all have to share our lives and to change our selves.
'The greatest memoirs give us something more than scenes from a life - they offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction.A Radical Romanceis more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art'Guardian
'Beautifully crafted...It casts a light on the lightness of love and the profound depression of loss. A truly gifted writer'The Herald
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241244500
ISBN-10: 0241244501
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 144 x 222 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Fig Tree
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Alison Lightis a writer and critic. She is an honorary professor in the Department of English at University College, London, Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University and a Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. A regular contributor to theLondon Review of Books, she is the author of the much-acclaimedMrs Woolf and the ServantsandCommon People,which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She lives in Oxford.

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There are of course memoirs that doastonish and exceed our expectationsof mere self-accounting: in recent years, Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk; Patti Smith's various autobiographical writings; Lorna Sage's Bad Blood;and Gillian Rose's Love's Work. Alison Light'sA Radical Romancenow joins this select bunch of books about the self that are not simply self-regarding but truly self-exploratory
Extremely interesting, moving, brilliantly written, as one would expect from Alison Light
A memoir ofcauterising honesty. This is a book thatdeserves to be widely read
An inspiring accountof thedeep lovebetween Alison Light and her late husband Raphael Samuel
Beautifully crafted...It casts a light on the lightness of love and the profound depression of loss.A truly gifted writer
She writes withprecision and tendernessabout loss.A Radical Romanceis anadmirabletribute to a man, a period of rapid change in London, and an unusual marriage
Compulsively readable. Light isa shrewd narrator. . . she reflects with careful psychological and philosophical insight on the reality of loneliness and profound loss following ten years of marriage. Light is also a poet and it shows in certain suppositions or propositions, those observations she posits in high-wire mental leaps.
Part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part labour history. Athrilling and unnerving read
Mesmericanddeeply moving
Remarkable, haunting, full of wisdom
Themost powerful family history I have ever read