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dear joe, your wild noisy huge brother is dead. i couldn't do what my parents did: bring two boys, four years apart, through the maze in 72 prose-poems of extraordinary power and vividness, 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 eighteen-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 the death, with a surprised, painful honesty which constantly brings the reader up short. Unflinching, totally lacking in mawkishness and self-pity, Carrying the Elephant is a triumph of imagination and curiosity.
| ISBN-13 | 9780141010274 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0141010274 |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.16 x 0.28 x 7.76 In |
| List Price | $11.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 96 pages |
| Publisher | Gardners Books |
| Published On | 2002-11-07 |
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