Double Thread

John Gross

ISBN 10: 0099422263 / ISBN 13: 9780099422266

Published by Vintage, 2002

About this Item

2002. New Ed. Paperback. John Gross is the son of a Jewish doctor who practised at the time of the Second World War. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet outside the home he grew up in a very English world of schools and books. Looking back on his childhood, Gross reflects on this double inheritance. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Double Thread
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099422263
• ISBN 13: 9780099422266
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

A touching memoir of a Jewish-English childhood in 1940s East End London.

Full of striking characters and odd encounters, this is an evocative picture of a lost London and a vanished culture, but it is also the story of an imaginative boy discovering his own path through books and films and school - away from Mile End into the new freedoms of the literary life.

About the Author

John Gross is theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His previous books include The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters and the widely acclaimed Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend. He lives in London, several miles from the East End.