The Handsomest Sons in the World: A Memoir (Duckbacks)

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2002
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Seen through the eyes of earnest thirteen-year-old Howard, a Jewish family of 1950s London springs into larger-than-life clarity. Beautiful Mum, embittered and repressed Dad, gentle, kindly Grandpa, and towering above the rest, Grandma, with her famed black cloche and white satin bloomers, her unmatchable 'way' with chicken soup (cooked for two days and served with feather-light kneidlach) and her unshakeable belief that her sons are better than any others; all whirl around Howard, who struggles to understand himself and his family with the help of Freud and his knowledgeable elder sister Rachel.

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Seen through the eyes of earnest thirteen-year-old Howard, a Jewish family of 1950s London springs into larger-than-life clarity. Beautiful Mum, embittered and repressed Dad, gentle, kindly Grandpa, and towering above the rest, Grandma, with her famed black cloche and white satin bloomers, her unmatchable 'way' with chicken soup (cooked for two days and served with feather-light kneidlach) and her unshakeable belief that her sons are better than any others; all whirl around Howard, who struggles to understand himself and his family with the help of Freud and his knowledgeable elder sister Rachel.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
Edition: New
Publisher: Duck Editions
Published: 27 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0715631586
ISBN 13: 9780715631584

Media Reviews

'A remarkable achievement' John Carey, The Sunday Times

Author Bio

Harold Carlton was born in Reading in 1942 and moved to London at the age of one. He attended Kilburn Grammar School and St Martin's School of Art. In 1988 he wrote a novel, Labels, under his own name; it sold more than a million copies in the USA and was translated into seven languages. His next novel, Sacrifice, was published in 1991, followed by The Scarf, a history of the silk square. He now divides his time between Pimlico in London and Palma de Mallorca, where he is working on a new novel.