Living backwards : a transatlantic memoir / by Carl Dawson
- Bib ID:
- 2311234
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dawson, Carl
- Description:
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- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995
- 220 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 081391633X (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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Living Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir incorporates November 1948 into a longer work that takes the ten-year-old author from a small gray Yorkshire village to the bright postwar boom of Los Angeles and back again at fourteen to the sober mill region of his ancestors. Back "home" without his family, he struggles with the loneliness of adolescence and the eccentric strangers of his new life.
- Notes:
- This book incorporates and continues earlier work, November 1948, published in 1990.
- Subject:
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- Dawson, Carl -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Los Angeles
- British Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography
- Literary historians -- United States -- Biography
- English teachers -- United States -- Biography
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
- Yorkshire (England) -- Social life and customs
- Other authors/contributors:
- Dawson, Carl. November 1948
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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