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Young Adolf

Beryl Bainbridge

Young Adolf

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ISBN:
9780349116136
ISBN-10:
0-349-11613-X

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Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything.

Reviews

  • 'At once funny and appalling … splendid occasions of high farce … rich in prophetic ironies' OBSERVER
  • Bainbridge has created a lucicrously funny farce, behind which lurks the destructive power of repressed fantasies & deeply felt resentments' S. TIMES
  • Bainbridge at her whimsical best, putting fantastic events firmly in a beautifully observed background.' D. TEL.
  • 'A delightfully original conception, executed with great skill and humour' John Fowles

Paperback: £7.99

Published 03/07/2003

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