Living Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir

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University of Virginia Press, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 220 pages
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Living Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir incorporates November 1948 into a longer work that takes the ten-year-old author from a small gray Yorkshire village to the bright postwar boom of Los Angeles and back again at fourteen to the sober mill region of his ancestors.

Through it all Living Backwards captures in moving detail a schoolboy's feeling of being neither of one place nor the other. As his father loses his battle with Alzheimer's disease, the middle-aged narrator becomes his father's memory, recalling for him his Yorkshire past, tying together the book's themes of memory and loss, identity and place.

 

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Immigration and exile work both ways in this well-told memoir of a Yorkshire family's immigration to Southern California in 1948 and their almost all-American son's return as a schoolboy in 1952. For ... Read full review

Contents

Section 1
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Section 2
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Section 3
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Section 4
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Section 5
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Section 6
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Section 7
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Section 8
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Section 19
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Section 20
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Section 21
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Section 22
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Section 23
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Section 24
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Section 25
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Section 26
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Section 9
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Section 10
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Section 11
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Section 12
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Section 13
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Section 14
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Section 15
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Section 16
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Section 17
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Section 18
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Section 27
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Section 28
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Section 29
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Section 30
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Section 31
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Section 32
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Section 33
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Section 34
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Section 35
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TitleLiving Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir
AuthorCarl Dawson
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press, 1995
ISBN081391633X, 9780813916330
Length220 pages
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