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Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
A brilliant, meandering exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage...
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a "Gaiety Girl" mother; together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar)...
Germs: A Memoir Of Childhood
Germs : A Memoir of Childhood
Germs
Written over a period of twenty years, philosopher Richard Wollheim's daring memoir of his childhood comes alive in incandescent prose that recalls the sensibilities of Marcel Proust and W.G. Sebald. Wollheim describes his childhood in a well-to-do household in England, in the...
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