Living Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir

by Carl Dawson

Living Backwards: A Transatlantic Memoir incorporates November 1948 into a longer work that takes the ten-year-old author from a small gray Yorkshire village to the bright postwar boom of Los Angeles and back again at fourteen to the sober mill region of his ancestors.Through it all Living Backwards captures in moving detail a schoolboy's feeling of being neither of one place nor the other. As his father loses his battle with Alzheimer's disease,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081391633X
• ISBN13: 9780813916330
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.3"