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The Splits: A Chronicle of Conflicts in a Young Man's Life

The Splits: A Chronicle of Conflicts in a Young Man's Life

Rumney, Boris

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ISBN10: 153528921X
ISBN13: 9781535289214
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 18 2016
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Current thinking on the development of the male sex puts twenty-eight as the age at which the man becomes fully human. By chance, twenty-eight is the age at which the author brings this memoir to an end. This is the story of an ordinary boy into man who had to negotiate his way between the numerous conflicting forces and influences, both external and internal which burdened him from his earliest years: Anglo-Jew and the difficulties of integrating the Anglo and the Jew. A paternal family where intellectual and academic brilliance was the attribute most admired and celebrated and a maternal one, uneducated, where industry and reliability were the paramount virtues. An unreliable, absent father both loved and resented and a parental couple whose relationship and separations impacted so adversely on their son. Added to this were the usual pangs of adolescence and the yearning for love, the desire to succeed and be noticed in an uncaring and competitive world and hardest of all, the struggle to create an authentic identity. But this is no misery memoir. The author does not retreat into melancholy or depression. His resilience and élan vital enable him to transcend setbacks and disappointments and throw himself into new activities and enthusiasms. This is an honest, unsparing, warts-and-all account of a developing life told with clarity and humour.

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