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Gloucester Crescent
William Miller
其他書名
Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
出版Profile Books Limited, 2019-07-04
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsSocial Science / Customs & Traditions
ISBN17881603719781788160377
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TTj2wAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Gloucester Crescent is a quiet, leafy street near Camden Town - but in the 60s, 70s and 80s it was also home to some of the brightest minds of a generation. This is the story of one very particular family and their circle of idealistic and intellectual friends. Son of the brilliant director, doctor and comedian Jonathan Miller, William spends his childhood in and out of the homes of his famous neighbours, going to parties and on holidays with them. He visits rehearsals with his dad, gets drugs from the philosopher A.J. Ayer's wife, watches the moon landing with Alan Bennett and a room full of writers. But against this backdrop of lively anecdote and hitherto-unseen domestic detail, William struggles at school and at home. Not only a picture of an extraordinary time in Britain's cultural history, this hilarious and at times heart-breaking memoir is also about how we grow up and move on from our childhoods - and what happens when we come back.