In This Dark House :Berthold Lubetkin - Hardcover
The youngest daughter of avant-garde architect Berthold Lubetkin recounts her life on the family's desolate southern England farm, describing Lubetkin's fiercely Communist beliefs and the tyrannical hold he kept on his children. 20,000 first printing.
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“A marvelously lucid account of a savage childhood, and of the family conspiracy that engendered it.”
—Anita Brookner
“Well constructed and beautifully written, [with] an emotional honesty which generates its own kind of lasting truth.”
—The Times Literary Supplement
In 1939 the influential architect Berthold Lubetkin abruptly left his thriving career in London and dropped out of sight, moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural Gloucestershire. Life in the house the Lubetkins named "World's End" was far from idyllic for their three children. Louise Kehoe and her siblings lived in an atmosphere of oppressive isolation, while their tyrannical father--at times charming and witty but usually a terrorist in a
self-styled Stalinist hell--badgered and belittled them during his fits of self-loathing. Even his true identity remained an enigma. That secret was never divulged during her father's lifetime, but Louise's quest to unearth its tragic origins--her relentless piecing together of the clues she found after his death--is a remarkable story, written with extraordinary grace, style, and imagination, of an identity and a heritage lost and found.
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self-styled Stalinist hell--badgered and belittled them during his fits of self-loathing. Even his true identity remained an enigma. That secret was never divulged during her father's lifetime, but Louise's quest to unearth its tragic origins--her relentless piecing together of the clues she found after his death--is a remarkable story, written with extraordinary grace, style, and imagination, of an identity and a heritage lost and found.
“A marvelously lucid account of a savage childhood, and of the family conspiracy that engendered it.”
—Anita Brookner
“Well constructed and beautifully written, [with] an emotional honesty which generates its own kind of lasting truth.”
—The Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherPENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0670866415
- ISBN 13 9780670866410
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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