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Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists
David Aaronovitch
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Description for Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists
Paperback. Blending memoir, history and biography, the author uncovers the story of his family's life by picking through letters, diaries and secret service files, which in turn unleash vivid childhood memories of a lost and idealistic world. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; BM; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARD David Aaronovitch grew up in Communist Great Britain - a Britain hidden from view for most, but for those on the inside it was a life filled with picket lines, militant trade unions, solidarity rallies for foreign Communists, the Red Army Choir, copies of the Daily Worker, all underpinned by a quiet love of the Soviet Union. In this idiosyncratic blend of memoir, history and biography, David Aaronovitch uncovers the story of his family's life by picking through letters, diaries and secret service files, ... Read more
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARD David Aaronovitch grew up in Communist Great Britain - a Britain hidden from view for most, but for those on the inside it was a life filled with picket lines, militant trade unions, solidarity rallies for foreign Communists, the Red Army Choir, copies of the Daily Worker, all underpinned by a quiet love of the Soviet Union. In this idiosyncratic blend of memoir, history and biography, David Aaronovitch uncovers the story of his family's life by picking through letters, diaries and secret service files, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099478973
SKU
V9780099478973
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About David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch is an award-winning journalist, who has worked in radio, television and newspapers in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s. He lives in Hampstead, north London, with his wife, three daughters and Kerry Blue the terrier. His first book, Paddling to Jerusalem, won the Madoc prize for travel literature in 2001 and his second, Voodoo Histories, was a ... Read more
Reviews for Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists
An affectionate and insightful account of 20th-century history that also amounts to a manifesto for the power of words - and belonging.
Helen Davies
Sunday Times, Book of the Year
Compassionate and wise... An effervescent and essential writer.
Nick Cohen
Observer
David Aaronovitch is to be congratulated on his Le ... Read more
Helen Davies
Sunday Times, Book of the Year
Compassionate and wise... An effervescent and essential writer.
Nick Cohen
Observer
David Aaronovitch is to be congratulated on his Le ... Read more