My family : the memoir / David Baddiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baddiel, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baddiel, David--Family.

Baddiel, David.

Comedians--Great Britain--Biography.

Comedians.

Jewish comedians--Great Britain--Biography.

Jewish comedians.

Authors.

Physical Description:

352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : 4th Estate, 2024.

Summary:

On the surface, David Baddiel's childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman. Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his family's past, his father's memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his mother's affair, there is both comedy and poignancy to be found: laughter is a constant presence, capable of transforming the darkest of experiences into something redemptive.

ISBN:

9780008487607

000848760X

OCLC:

1449575931

Publisher Number:

90100165782