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62) Road kill
Author
Series
Dido Hoare mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Sasha Abramsky's elegy to the vanished intellectual world of his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam, and their vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history. A rare book dealer and self-educated polymath who would go on to teach at Oxford and consult for Sotheby's, Chimen Abramsky drew great writers and thinkers like Isaiah Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm to his north London home; his library grew from his abiding passion for books and...