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Carrying the Elephant: A Memoir of Love and Loss Book
In 72 prose-poems Michael Rosen tells the story of a life: his left-wing Jewish upbringing, with baffling childhood trips to Trafalgar Square, eastern Europe and hospital, followed by trainee days at the BBC under the watchful eyes of MI5, breakdown of a marriage, development of a new relationship and the joy of a new baby. And, in a core series of pieces, the central calamity of his life: the sudden death from meningitis of his 18 year-old son. "Rather you than me", said one of the neighbours on hearing the news - a remark that Rosen records, as he does much else to do with death, with surprised, painful honesty.Read More
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- 0141010274
- 9780141010274
- Michael Rosen
- 7 November 2002
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 96
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