The World Is a Wedding

by Bernard Kops

The World is a Wedding moves from Bernard Kops' childhood years of absolute poverty in London's Jewish East End through to the dens of Soho and his emergence as a major writer in the 1950s. Along the way Kops survived years of despair; drug addiction and madness, roaming aimlessly across London, France and North Africa.

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Bernard Kops was a British dramatist, memoirist, poet and novelist. His work is often concerned with the East End of London and its Jewish community.

Reviews

[Chris Eve · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gave me a lot of hope; as well as laughter.

[Deborah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is very depressing. It is about a Jewish boy during WW2 and you would expect him to be glad to be in England without the gas chambers etc but he is totally at a loss to the world until he decides it is better to marry than die/kill himself. He only gets it together in the last chapter of the book. This is not recommended.