{"product_id":"alva-s-boy-alan-collins","title":"Alva’s Boy – Alan Collins","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"desktop-product-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unsentimental biography….\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"p_lt_ctl01_pageplaceholder_p_lt_ctl00_DymocksProductFull_ProductDetailsDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood over a time span from 1928 to the mid-forties. In some telling, names of people, places and dates have been changed. Mercifully, those named who are or were of a repellent nature have long since ‘gone to God’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories present incidents from the life of one person, the first-person narrator. The memoir is purposely unsentimental. The writer has worked hard to circumvent cheap emotion. Some readers might find it confronting. The linked stories encompass a child’s unsparingly honest observations as he is buffeted by events which range from indifference and naked cruelty to sparkling life-affirming exuberance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHybrid Publishers 2018, paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Museum Donation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44522837704773,"sku":"22","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/alvas-boy-alan-collins-alva-sboy-1600963.jpg?v=1776922691","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/alva-s-boy-alan-collins","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}