Synopsis
Hoggart is not afraid to address the big questions: the problem of faith, the conscience and its impact on our behaviour,the nature of society and class, family and friends, the nature of memory and the need, in old age, to find some significance.'
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Review
"Anecdotal, eccentric but wholly enchanting and wise.... [A] lovely book by a lovely man."
--Bernard Crick, "Independent"
"Profound, funny, modest and necessary."
--Philip Oakes, "Times Literary Supplement"
"An excellent writer.... essentially timeless."
--John Gross, "Sunday Telegraph"
"The perfect elegiac postscript... not only arresting but original."
--Anthony Howard, "Sunday Times"
"Anecdotal, eccentric but wholly enchanting and wise.... [A] lovely book by a lovely man."
--Bernard Crick, Independent
"Profound, funny, modest and necessary."
--Philip Oakes, Times Literary Supplement
"An excellent writer.... essentially timeless."
--John Gross, Sunday Telegraph
"The perfect elegiac postscript... not only arresting but original."
--Anthony Howard, Sunday Times
-Anecdotal, eccentric but wholly enchanting and wise.... [A] lovely book by a lovely man.-
--Bernard Crick, Independent
-Profound, funny, modest and necessary.-
--Philip Oakes, Times Literary Supplement
-An excellent writer.... essentially timeless.-
--John Gross, Sunday Telegraph
-The perfect elegiac postscript... not only arresting but original.-
--Anthony Howard, Sunday Times
About the Author
Richard Hoggart, as professor of modern English literature at Birmingham University, founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He has authored or edited over twenty-five books, including Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical, The Uses of Literacy, and The Tyranny of Relativism, all available from Transaction.
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