All in a Lifetime

by Walter Allen

Paperback. Signed and dedicated by author on title pages. Covers are lightly tanned and marked. Vertical crease on spine. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn. Page block and pages are tanned. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM

265 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 1959

About the author

Walter Ernest Allen was an English literary critic and novelist.

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

1986 notebook: very male book, of its time I suppose; he mentions his wife two or three times throughout its length; can't come to terms with women or sex. Women don't get much of a look in - his wife seems loved because she is quiet and still, undemanding, even at the end when she goes blind. But, on the other hand, a felicitous portrait of the Midlands, lower middle class life in Birmingham in the first half of the twentieth century, and can be enjoyed for that.