A Vanished Hand: My Autograph Album - Softcover

Rudolf, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848612923 ISBN 13: 9781848612921

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2013

Synopsis

A Vanished Hand: My Autograph Album is a postscript to Anthony Rudolf's memoir of childhood, The Arithmetic of Memory (1999) and accompanies the newly published Silent Conversations: A Reader's Life. The autograph album, testimony to Rudolf's teenage years, was presumed lost for thirty years until it emerged, energies intact, beneath a pile of books in the author's loft. Describing the circumstances of each autograph, he is led down unexpected trails, such as a visit to Bushey Jewish Cemetery, where he explores the wording on Alma Cogan's tombstone, only a few yards from that of the author's parents. All the autographs are reproduced, among them Rudolf's summer hero, Denis Compton, and his winter hero Billy Wright. A high point is the hilarious account of the longest table tennis point ever played, triggered by the autograph of Alex Ehrlich. In addition to these three memoirs, Anthony Rudolf, born in London in 1942, has written several other books, most recently, Zigzag (2010), a volume of poetry and related prose. His writings include literary and art criticism, short stories under the narrative influence of Paula Rego and poetry translations from French and Russian. An occasional broad-caster, he was visiting lecturer in Arts and Humanities at London Metropolitan University and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the English Association, and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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About the Author

Anthony Rudolf is a poet, literary critic, editor and translator. He is the author of "The Arithmetic of Memory, "among other books, and founding publisher of Menard Press.Since 2000 he has had an academic career, first at London Metropolitan University, and later at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster. In 2004, he was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and, in 2005, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848612923
• ISBN 13: 9781848612921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112