The World is a Wedding - Hardcover

Kops, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0853031797 ISBN 13: 9780853031796

Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 1973

Synopsis

The World is a Wedding moves from Bernard Kops' childhood years of absolute poverty in London's Jewish East End through to the dens of Soho and his emergence as a major writer in the 1950s. Along the way Kops survived years of despair; drug addiction and madness, roaming aimlessly across London, France and North Africa.

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Review:

A remarkable autobiography which blends loathing and love in an evocation of the city. --Evening Standard

The experiences Kops recalls are brutish, grim and factual, but the mind that interprets these is unfailingly dramatic and exalts a most horrible history into a fantastical rhapsody. --New York Times

About the Author:

Bernark Kops was born in 1926, achieving international recognition with his first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green. Since then he has written over forty plays for stage and radio, nine novels and eight volumes of poetry. His award-winning play Dreams of Anne Frank tours internationally. The anthology Bernard Kops' East End was published by Five Leaves in celebration of his eightieth birthday. He is still writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0853031797
• ISBN 13: 9780853031796
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264