Chapters of Accidents - A Writer’s Memoir (Paperback)

‘We have waited a long time for this war’s All Quiet on the Western Front’, wrote the critic V.S. Pritchett. ‘Here It is.’ He was reviewing the 1948 novel From the City From the Plough by Alexander Baron (1917-1999). With its success, Baron became a full-time writer. His best-known later novels include The Human Kind (1953), The Lowlife (1963) and King Dido (1969). Between the 1950s and 1980s he also wrote many film and television scripts. Here Baron recounts the experiences of his childhood and youth that shaped him as a writer and provided subject matter for his novels. He evokes the sights, sounds and aromas surrounding him growing up in a Jewish family in Hackney, East London, in the 1920s. Later, aware of the rising fascist threat, Baron was drawn to left-wing politics, becoming a leader of Labour’s youth organisation. Although not formally a member, he also worked secretly for the Communist Party as an organiser and propagandist. With World War Two his life changed again. A keen solider, he fought with the Pioneer Corps in Sicily, Italy, and northern France. After a hard transition to post-war life, he worked at Unity Theatre in London while writing his breakthrough novel.

General

Imprint:	Vallentine Mitchell
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2022
Authors:	Alexander Baron
Editors:	Colin Holmes • Nick Baron
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-1-80371-029-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-80371-029-2
Barcode:	9781803710297

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