Ronald Fraser

In Search of a Past (eBook, ePUB)

The Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-1945

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ronald Fraser, the internationally renowned oral historian, turns his attention to his own origins in this remarkable memoir. In Search of a Past gathers the recollections of the servants who worked at the manor house outside London where Fraser grew up. It was the place where his parents-one American, the other Scottish-learned to embrace the lifestyle of the idle local gentry. Fraser paints a vivid picture of a vanished interwar world. Sensitively recorded, the words of his family's former employees capture the texture of English "county" life as seen from below, woven into a background of their personal lives, their work and the social antagonisms they experienced.
Beneath their stories, however, the author glimpses another unspoken narrative-that of his own childhood. He submits to a course of psychoanalysis and delves into a past riven by confusing emotions and conflicting class allegiances. The result is an innovative, honest, and beautifully written account of the search for lost time, one that defies literary categorization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789601053
• Artikelnr.: 66424702

Autorenporträt

Ronald Fraser (1930-2012) is the author of, among other works, Blood of Spain, a celebrated oral history of the Spanish Civil War.