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Title: SO THEY CALL YOU PISHER!
A MEMOIR
By: Michael Rosen
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1786633965
ISBN 13: 9781786633965
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Publisher: VERSO BOOKS
Pub. date: 12 September, 2017
Pages: 320
Description: The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 16pp B&W integrated
Publication: UK
Imprint: Verso Books
Returns: Returnable
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