Alva's boy
Subtitle: an unsentimental memoir
By: Alan Collins
Publisher: Hybrid Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ormond, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781876462666
Subjects: Jewish children; Biography; Childhood and youth
Description: "This book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood over a time span from 1928 to the mid-forties. In some telling, names of people, places and dates have been changed. Mercifully, those named who are or were of a repellent nature have long since gone to God. The stories present incidents from the life of one person, the first-person narrator. The memoir is purposely unsentimental. The writer has worked hard to circumvent cheap emotion. Some readers might find it confronting. The linked stories encompass a childs unsparingly honest observations as he is buffeted by events which range from indifference and naked cruelty to sparkling life-affirming exuberance."--Provided by publisher.