Author: Ian Collard
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678047
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A fascinating portrait of the Wirral presented through a remarkable collection of historical photographs.
Wirral From Old Photographs
Author: Ian Collard
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678047
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A fascinating portrait of the Wirral presented through a remarkable collection of historical photographs.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678047
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A fascinating portrait of the Wirral presented through a remarkable collection of historical photographs.
The Connoisseur
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Official Index to The Times
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Gonville
Author: Peter Birkenhead
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439101272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In powerful and spirited prose, Peter Birkenhead recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, a terrifying, charismatic presence who brutalized his family physically and emotionally at the same time that he enchanted them with his passion and whimsy. An avid gun collector yet an anti-war activist, a popular economics professor and a wife-swapping nudist, a leftist and a lifelong fan of the British Empire who would occasionally don an authentic pith helmet and imitate Michael Caine’s performance as the heroic Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in the bloody war film Zulu, he was a man who could knock his young son down the stairs one day and the next cry about putting the family’s aged dog to sleep. Such is the contradictory figure at the center of this astonishingly candid and shocking memoir. As a young adult, Birkenhead reacted to his volatile childhood by forgetting its worst moments. He adopted all the trappings of normalcy, threw himself into a career as an actor, landing parts in Broadway plays like Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, both by Neil Simon, and found himself often playing characters who were angry at their fathers. Yet he discovered that he was sleepwalking through life, on occasion falling into rages that reminded him of his father. Then at thirty-one, eleven years after his parents’ divorce, Birkenhead told his mother about his recurring dream of flying down the stairs of their house as a young boy. She revealed that it wasn’t a dream, but a memory from his early childhood of being carried rapidly down the stairs by his mom after his father had pointed a gun at them. The revelation about the dream sparked the painful yet necessary process of examining his childhood and of ultimately moving beyond it, forcing Birkenhead to finally confront his father in a way that released him and his family from this complicated legacy. Combining the terror and wit of Running with Scissors, the poignancy and sense of place of The Tender Bar, with the sparkling prose of Oh the Glory of It All, Gonville is light on its feet even as it deals in the darkest of family tales. A harrowing and often humorous story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charming, cruel, generous, and violent father.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439101272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In powerful and spirited prose, Peter Birkenhead recounts a childhood spent trying to make sense of his father, a terrifying, charismatic presence who brutalized his family physically and emotionally at the same time that he enchanted them with his passion and whimsy. An avid gun collector yet an anti-war activist, a popular economics professor and a wife-swapping nudist, a leftist and a lifelong fan of the British Empire who would occasionally don an authentic pith helmet and imitate Michael Caine’s performance as the heroic Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in the bloody war film Zulu, he was a man who could knock his young son down the stairs one day and the next cry about putting the family’s aged dog to sleep. Such is the contradictory figure at the center of this astonishingly candid and shocking memoir. As a young adult, Birkenhead reacted to his volatile childhood by forgetting its worst moments. He adopted all the trappings of normalcy, threw himself into a career as an actor, landing parts in Broadway plays like Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, both by Neil Simon, and found himself often playing characters who were angry at their fathers. Yet he discovered that he was sleepwalking through life, on occasion falling into rages that reminded him of his father. Then at thirty-one, eleven years after his parents’ divorce, Birkenhead told his mother about his recurring dream of flying down the stairs of their house as a young boy. She revealed that it wasn’t a dream, but a memory from his early childhood of being carried rapidly down the stairs by his mom after his father had pointed a gun at them. The revelation about the dream sparked the painful yet necessary process of examining his childhood and of ultimately moving beyond it, forcing Birkenhead to finally confront his father in a way that released him and his family from this complicated legacy. Combining the terror and wit of Running with Scissors, the poignancy and sense of place of The Tender Bar, with the sparkling prose of Oh the Glory of It All, Gonville is light on its feet even as it deals in the darkest of family tales. A harrowing and often humorous story of a son coming to terms with his alternately charming, cruel, generous, and violent father.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
British Sources of Photographs and Pictures
Author: George Walter Arthur Nunn
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Author: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Publisher:
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Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
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Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Country Life
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Liverpool Prints and Documents
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. Library
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Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Municipal Journal
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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