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I Came, I Saw: An Autobiography
by: Norman Lewis

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780330340052
ISBN: 0330340050
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: December 06, 1996
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador
Sales Rank: 96354

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Norman Lewis's autobiography was originally published as "Jackdaw Cake" in 1985. It is now re-published with 50 new pages increasing in depth the story in the 1960s and 1970s, recording his time spent in the south of Italy. The book follows him from stammering schoolboy, whose parents were Spiritualists who hoped he might develop into a medium, to his meeting with an enigmatic and retiring Sicilian whose daughter he married, to his time with the bizarre duo Captain Merrylees and Sergeant Major Leopold who were locked in a wordless struggle for control of the Intelligence Corps section in which Lewis served in North Africa.
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Wonderful - but look out!
This is a wonderful book. Norman Lewis had a most remarkable and peculiar childhood and early adulthood. He was sent from proto-suburban pre-war Enfield to live with his grandfather and three aunts in Carmarthen, 'Welsh Wales'. All three aunts were a bit touched and hilariously funny descriptions by Lewis lighten what were in fact very sad, strange and pitiful lives. He captures the stultifying pettiness and conformity of deeply provincial lives with unsentimental clarity and insight.

Back in Enfield, his father, a very reluctant pharmacist, gave up his day-job to become a medium, he and Lewis's mother having embraced Spiritualism. Again. Lewis writes with laugh-out-loud humour about scenes and events that at bottom were really ... Read More:

 



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