Last Performance At The Odeon: Being the Memoirs of a Jewish woman growing up in Britain-Kibbutz, Love, Death and the search for her Romanian roots - Hardcover

Carol Susan Nathanson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1912477610 ISBN 13: 9781912477616

Publisher: Maida Vale Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

'Sometimes it takes years and years to see a pattern, but watch a tin of paint when it falls and spreads unmercifully across the carpet. You can't stop it. The stain just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, like secrets, passed down from generation to generation. Each family fiddles with the story, changes a fact here and there, tries to protect itself. From what -- shame. We have to stop it.' Last Performance at the Odeon is an evocative and original autobiographical prose poem, rich in insights into Anglo- Jewish life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, supported by family-historical documents and photographs. Nathanson gives us stories and snapshots of lovers, family, a grandfather who sails the wide open seas, an adventure in South Africa and a Romanian caretaker who watches over the tombs of their fathers or was it her great-uncle Alf ? We never quite know. Her story stands alongside the complexities of her childhood, her search for roots and her desire for completion; the circle of identity that we all aspire to.

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About the Author

Carol Susan Nathanson has completed the Graduate Diploma in Writing with Commendation at The National Academy of Writing, and an Honours Degree in Performance Arts. Her prose poetry has been published in anthologies and performed at Foyles in London and Birmingham City University. Carol has lived on kibbutz, raised a family and worked in the theatre. More recently, she worked as a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist for the NHS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Maida Vale Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912477610
• ISBN 13: 9781912477616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288