Eddie the Kid

by Leo Zeilig

Overview

Eddie Bereskin wants to change the world and stop the war, instead his life unravels after he is arrested on a Halloween protest in 2002. An incredible story about loss and hope set in London, Eddie the Kid takes us to the anti-war movement and two generations of activists, where, amid rioting and arrests, the destinies of Eddie and his sister Esther have been shaped.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780993683
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	03/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	367 KB

About the Author

Leo Zeilig is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London running a project on the life and work of South African revolutionary Ruth First.

Editorial Reviews

Leo Zeilig's gripping, vibrant and affecting story of political struggle and psychological upheaval. Written through a series of flashbacks and time shifts, with naked bravura, EDDIE THE KID follows a family of political activists through generations from 1960s Chicago to the London protests in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. With brute honesty and tender compassion, Zeilig reveals a cast of compelling characters as damaged and flawed as the world they have set out to change. Charting relationships, resistance, domestic violence, inner conflict, repression, rigged courts, police brutality, street battles.... this is a humane and political novel for our times. —Nicola Field
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