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Title: So They Call You Pisher!
Condition: New
EAN: 9781786633965
ISBN: 9781786633965
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Weight: 651g
Author: Michael Rosen
Language: English
Subtitle: A Memoir
ISBN-10: 1786633965
Description: "If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen? 'So they call you pisher!'"

In this humorous and moving memoir, Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. Born in the North London suburbs, his parents, Harold and Connie, both teachers, first met as teenage Communists in the 1930s Jewish East End. The family home was filled with stories of relatives in London, the United States and France and of those who had disappeared in Europe.

Unlike the children around them, Rosen and his brother Brian grew up dreaming of a socialist revolution; Party meetings were held in the front room, summers were for communist camping holidays, till it all changed after a trip to East Germany, when in 1957 his parents decided to leave "the Party." Michael followed his own journey of radical self-discovery: running away to the Aldermaston March to ban the bomb, writing and performing in experimental political theatre, getting arrested during the 1968 movements.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Width: 30mm
Genre: Biography
Topic: Law & Politics
Release Year: 2017

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