Austerity Baby

by Janet Wolff

Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526121301
• ISBN13: 9781526121301
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"