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Living backwards : a transatlantic memoir / by Carl Dawson
Bib ID 2311234
Format BookBook
Author
Dawson, Carl
 
Description Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995 
220 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 081391633X (alkaline paper)
Summary

Living Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir incorporates November 1948 into a longer work that takes the ten-year-old author from a small gray Yorkshire village to the bright postwar boom of Los Angeles and back again at fourteen to the sober mill region of his ancestors. Back "home" without his family, he struggles with the loneliness of adolescence and the eccentric strangers of his new life.

Notes

This book incorporates and continues earlier work, November 1948, published in 1990.

Subjects Dawson, Carl -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Los Angeles.  |  British Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.  |  Literary historians -- United States -- Biography.  |  English teachers -- United States -- Biography.  |  Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.  |  Yorkshire (England) -- Social life and customs.
Other authors/contributors Dawson, Carl. November 1948
Also Titled

November 1948.

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