Rosa : memories with license / Ros Collins
- Bib ID:
- 10005469
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Collins, R. (Ros), author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : Hybrid Publishers, 2019
- 1 online resource (134 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file PDF 1.3MB
- ISBN:
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- 1925736245
- 1925736253
- 9781925736243
- 9781925736250
- Summary:
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As British as Earl Grey tea, Rosa has spent most of her life in Melbourne. Her children and grandchildren are all Australian-born, as was Alan, her writer husband. But Rosa is hesitant about an unconditional commitment to Vegemite, mateship and the ANZAC legend; she remains a perennial migrant, often amused by her memories, here presented with a deliberate overlay of lies and licence. Her family's history is nearer to Dickens than the shtetls of Eastern Europe; Rosa herself recalls Dunkirk and the Blitz. Beyond the conservatism of 1950s London that she escaped, Rosa flings open the windows and doors to invite the reader into her Anglo-Australian-Jewish family. She refrains from delving into deep psychological examinations of what it means to be an only child, an only grandchild, a reluctant Jewish teenager, and muse to a man whose terrible childhood scarred him for life; the 'clues' are all there for the curious reader to discover.
- Subject:
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- Collins, R. (Ros) -- Biography
- British -- Australia -- Biography
- Emigration and immigration -- Personal naratives
- Immigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- Jews -- Identity
- Librarians -- Australia -- Biography
- British
- Family history, tracing ancestors
- Immigrants
- Librarians
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Biography
- England -- Emigration and immigration -- Biography
- Melbourne (Vic.)
- Australia
- Genre/Form:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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