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Journey Through a Small Planet (Penguin Modern Classics)
by: Emanuel Litvinoff

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141189307
ISBN: 0141189304
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: August 07, 2008
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 16898

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- Wonderfully evocative of the inter-war East End
This is a re-issue, as a Penguin Modern Classic, of a book first published in 1972. In twelve short chapters Litvinoff wonderfully evokes his childhood and adolescence in the crowded inter-war Jewish East End. While bringing out the poverty, squalor and stench in which the immigrants from Eastern Europe lived, there is a rich and vibrant community life, and his observations of characters and situations are mostly humorous - though the chapter on his experience of coarse antisemitism from staff and fellow-pupils at a trade school for shoe-makers is too grim for humour. He did not seem to show much promise as a youngster and had a series of dreary and humdrum jobs. At the very end of this memoir, when he was 19, a poem suddenly came to him, ... Read More:

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