Sean Shapiro wrote:
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> Alexander Baron's 'King Dido' has come back into print. Haven't read
> it yet. Takes place in East London in 1911. Any rara avians come
> across this?
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> Sean Shapiro
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Yes, Baron was a terrific writer who I was fortunate enough to know in
his last years. He's best known for his WW2 trilogy - From The City,
From The Plough, There's No Home and The Human Kind (filmed as The
Victors by Carl Foreman) - they have the verisimilitude that came with
having fought through the war - both in Italy and in Normandy - and
anyone with any interest in the subject should read them. The nearest
thing he has to a rara-avis title is probably The Lowlife - a wonderful
low-key story about an East End Jewish gambler in the years after the
war. King Dido was his own favourite of his books, a big novel about
crime and community.
John
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