A radical romance : a memoir of love, grief and consolation
Light, Alison, 1955-2020
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Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. 20 years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within 10, Raphael would be dead. Theirs was an attraction of opposites - he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements. She tells of moving into Raphael's cluttered 18th-century house in Spitalfields and into his equally full, unconventional life; of the whirlwind of change outside their door which transformed London's old East End districts; of being widowed at 41, and finding inspiration in her friendship with Raphael's mother.
Main title:
A radical romance : a memoir of love, grief and consolation / Alison Light.
Author:
Light, Alison, 1955-, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
xx, 229 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Fig Tree, 2019.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241975350 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
941.085092
Language:
English
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BRN:
2245853
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