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Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)
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Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem) Cloth - 2009

by David Kynaston

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London England: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2009. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0747583854 Hardcover First Edition First Printing Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem) As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive the narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servant Henry St John perfects the art of grumbling. These and many other voices give a rich, unsentimental picture of everyday life in the 1950s. We also encounter well-known figures on the way, such as Doris Lessing (joining and later leaving the Communist Party), John Arlott (sticking up on Any Questions? for the rights of homosexuals) and Tiger's Roy of the Rovers (making his goal-scoring debut for Melchester). All this is part of a colourful, unfolding tapestry, in which the great national events - the Tories returning to power, the death of George VI, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Suez Crisis - jostle alongside everything that gave Britain in the 1950s its distinctive flavour: .
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  • Title Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)
  • Author David Kynaston
  • Binding Cloth
  • Edition First Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine/Near Fine
  • Pages 776
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London England
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 108890
  • ISBN 9780747583851 / 0747583854
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Social life and customs -, Great Britain - Social conditions - 1945-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009529999
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.085

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