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Alva's Boy - Alan Collins

This book is a frank, confronting yet surprisingly funny memoir based on the life experiences and recollections of a Jewish childhood between 1928 to the mid-forties. 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. Alan Alva Collins, a former working journalist and advertising copywriter, was the author of the classic Jacob Kaiser trilogy A Promised Land? comprising The Boys from Bondi, Going Home and Joshua. He also published a collection of 21 short stories, Troubles. Published posthumously, Collins’ book Alva’s Boy will appeal to a wide audience, including those who enjoy memoirs like Angela’s Ashes. Humorous and poignant in turn, but always entertaining, it vibrantly captures life in Sydney in the 1930s and 1940s. Now available.

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