And my mother's bitter tears
$52.91
- Paperback
387 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2023
Summary
There is no doubt that this is, to a considerable extent, an autobiographical novel. It is also clear that parts of it are fictional, but it is not possible to define with any clarity the boundary between autobiography and fiction. The author did serve in the US Army in the Korean War as an underage soldier, though he was probably not quite so young as the narrator claims to have been. The author’s second name “Toteras” is his chosen nom-de-plume, formed from two Greek words “to” and “teras”,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912788200 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1912788209 |
| Author: | Demetrius Toteras, Anthony Hirst, Bronwen Godfrey |
| Publisher: | Colenso Books |
| Imprint: | Colenso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 387 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 508g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 148mm x 210mm |
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Demetrius Toteras
Demetrius Toteras or D. K. Toteras is a nom-de-plume. The author, a Greek American, was born in San Francisco in1935 and died in 2009. He was an underage soldier in the US army and saw active service in the early part of the Korean War. It is known that he spent some time in jail, and his first publication, Sunday They’ll Make Me A Saint (1972), was a drama set in a prison and first performed by inmates of San Quentin. He left a body of psychological/philosophical reflections which remain unpublished, except for The Rape Of The Sleeping Woman And The Practice of Hypnagogic Sex (1995). He was extensively involved in music and in experimental theatre.
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