Childhood

by Jan Myrdal

Book Overview

"Childhood" was a scandal which became a classic.
This book's revisionist look at the private lives of the founders of the Swedish welfare state was so scandalous it was almost suppressed in Sweden. Sissela Bok's "Alva Myrdal" was written in response, to give Jan's mother's point of view on this fascinating, troubled family.
But Childhood is first of all a story about the intense experience of childhood stripped of all sentimentality, seen again...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941702294
• ISBN13: 9780941702294
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"