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The Bristle Merchant's Daughter (Paperback)
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The Bristle Merchant's Daughter (Paperback)
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Loot Price R455
Discovery Miles 4 550
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The Bristle Merchants Daughter: about the book John Salinsky wanted
to find out more about his mother's life. She was born in 1902, the
first child of parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe in
search of a better life and freedom from fear. She tried to become
a doctor at a time when women doctors were unusual. She did not
succeed, but her three sons all became doctors. She suffered from
depression as a young married woman and had psychoanalysis with one
of Sigmund Freud's early followers in London. She brought up her
family in Leeds and died at the age of 96, having lived through
nearly the whole of the twentieth century. Apart from a few unusual
features it was 'an ordinary life'. But ones relationship with ones
mother is never ordinary. In this biography, John Salinsky begins
by using his imagination to picture the life of his young
grandparents in Tsarist Russia. He traces his mother's girlhood and
her life as a young wife and parent up to the point of his own
birth in 1941. From here on he blends imagination with memory and
inquiry, trying to make sense of the complex emotions that bind a
mother and her son in love and conflict. His description of the
closeness they achieved in her final years makes moving reading.
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