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In Search of a Past Hardback - 2010

by Ronald Fraser

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Ronald Fraser, the internationally renowned oral historian, turns his attention to his own origins in this remarkable memoir. In Search of a Past gathers the recollections of the servants who worked at the manor house outside London where Fraser grew up. It was the place where his parents--one American, the other Scottish--learned to embrace the lifestyle of the idle local gentry. Fraser paints a vivid picture of a vanished interwar world. Sensitively recorded, the words of his family's former employees capture the texture of English "county" life as seen from below, woven into a background of their personal lives, their work and the social antagonisms they experienced.

Beneath their stories, however, the author glimpses another unspoken narrative--that of his own childhood. He submits to a course of psychoanalysis and delves into a past riven by confusing emotions and conflicting class allegiances. The result is an innovative, honest, and beautifully written account of the search for lost time, one that defies literary categorization.

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  • Title In Search of a Past
  • Author Ronald Fraser
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition New Edition
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, London
  • Publication date 2010-08-31
  • Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781844675975 / 1844675971
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 6.6 x 0.86 in (21.54 x 16.76 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain, England - Social life and customs - 20th
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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“This book makes an important breach in the walls of memory and penetrates its frozen silences.”—Raphael Samuel

About the author

Ronald Fraser is the leading oral historian of twentieth-century Spain. He is the author of several books, including In Hiding, In Search of a Past, Blood of Spain and Napoleon's Cursed War.
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