Germs

A Memoir of Childhood

By: Richard Wollheim

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Paperback | 15 July 2010 | Edition Number 1

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320 Pages

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'Destined to become a classic' - Francis Wyndham

The son of affluent parents - a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless 'Gaiety Girl' mother he came to regret loathing - Richard Wollheim grew up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s. Germs is his account of those years. It is a book like no other; a remarkable exploration of childhood by one of the English-speaking world's most distinguished postwar thinkers.

Industry Reviews

'A frighteningly good memoir' * London Review of Books *
'Wollheim's powers of description astound...Because of the intensity with which a remarkable man has offered us a view of his inner self, I doubt whether anyone who has read it will forget it' * Literary Review *
'Germs is not only elegantly written; it is a human document of considerable power and importance' * Independent *
'Pungently truthful, complex and original' * Guardian *

'A masterpiece - an unclassifiable work of startling originality in which the acutely sensual and confusedly cerebral experience of infancy, boyhood and adolescence is brilliantly recreated'

* Spectator *

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