First U.S. Edition
Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would pass away.
Theirs was an attraction of opposites- he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements.
"...more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art." -GUARDIAN"Remarkable, moving, illuminating. A memoir of cauterizing honesty. This is a book that deserves to be widely read."
-MARK BOSTRIDGE, SPECTATOR
"An inspiring account of ... deep love..." -TLS
"Beautifully crafted...it casts a light on the lightness of love and the profound depression of loss. A truly gifted writer." -HERALD
"The portrait of Spitalfields is superb, and so is the account of Raphael's astonishing mother Minna."
-MARGARET DRABBLE, TLS, BOOK OF THE YEAR"Compulsively readable. Light is a shrewd narrator...She reflects with careful psychological and philosophical insight on the reality of loneliness and profound loss following ten years of marriage...Light is also a poet and it shows in certain suppositions and propositions..." -RTE
First U.S. Edition
Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would pass away.
Theirs was an attraction of opposites- he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements.
"...more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art." -GUARDIAN"Remarkable, moving, illuminating. A memoir of cauterizing honesty. This is a book that deserves to be widely read."
-MARK BOSTRIDGE, SPECTATOR
"An inspiring account of ... deep love..." -TLS
"Beautifully crafted...it casts a light on the lightness of love and the profound depression of loss. A truly gifted writer." -HERALD
"The portrait of Spitalfields is superb, and so is the account of Raphael's astonishing mother Minna."
-MARGARET DRABBLE, TLS, BOOK OF THE YEAR"Compulsively readable. Light is a shrewd narrator...She reflects with careful psychological and philosophical insight on the reality of loneliness and profound loss following ten years of marriage...Light is also a poet and it shows in certain suppositions and propositions..." -RTE
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A Radical Romance
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781956474251 |
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| Publisher: | Heliotrope Books LLC |
| Publication date: | 02/14/2023 |
| Pages: | 262 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d) |