{"product_id":"austerity-baby-9781526121301","title":"Austerity Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Janet Wolff\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAusterity baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is wide-ranging and consistently surprising. The underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement, life (and death) during the Third Reich, mother-daughter and sibling relationships, the generational transmission of trauma and experience, transatlantic reflections and the struggle for creative expression. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stories mobilised and people encountered in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist Henry Simon of Manchester and his relationship with the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s Eleanor Rathbone; and reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented throughout by extensive visual materials - including photographs, paintings and facsimile documents - which illustrate the story while engaging indirectly with the written word.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411318988951,"sku":"9781526121301","price":2667.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781526121301.webp?v=1767106124","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/austerity-baby-9781526121301","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}