Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs
Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs
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Following "Growing up in the Gorbals" and "Gorbals Boy at Oxford", this third part is about the life of the author in the wider world of London in the 20 years after the war. Working for the Arts Council and later, in public relations, he straddled the worlds of business and Bohemia.
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Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs by Ralph Glasser
"Growing up in the Gorbals" described Ralph Glasser's poverty-stricken childhood in Glasgow as the son of impoverished Jewish immigrants, while "Gorbals Boy at Oxford" took him south to wartime Oxford and the army; and in this, the concluding volume, he ventures out into the wider world of London in the 20 years after the war. Working for the Arts Council and, later, in public relations, he straddled the worlds of business and Bohemia; unhappily married to a gentile girl, he still sought - as he had at Oxford - to put behind him the voices and the influences of the past, of his Jewishness and his Gorbals childhood. A film festival in Biarritz provides bizarre, almost surrealistic encounters with Cocteau, King Farouk and a Duke of Windsor virtually incapacitated by drink; Fitzrovia is scoured in search of a missing Oxford friend; a new life opens up after the extended torments of divorce: and yet, through all the changes and the excitment of his new life, old ties and old allegiances still, unexpectedly, make their claims, and inescapable truths intrude.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780701134457 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701134453 |
| Title | Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs |
| Author | Ralph Glasser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1990-04-19 |
| Number of pages | 209 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |