{"product_id":"farewell-leicester-square","title":"Farewell Leicester Square","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"picright\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"redtext\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/post-2898-1175884865.jpg?v=1593032780\u0026amp;width=700\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePREFACE BY JANE MILLER\u003cbr\u003e336pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155035\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetty Miller wrote this, her fourth novel, in 1935. But her publisher, Victor Gollancz, 'turned the book down flat,' wrote Neal Ascherson in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books.\u003c\/em\u003e 'It seems most likely that he saw it as terrifyingly provocative, not only an attack on the solid English assimilation of his own family but a tactless outburst against the English at precisely the moment, two years after Hitler's assumption of power, when their tolerance and hospitality were most needed.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the novel Alec Berman escapes from his restrictive Jewish family in Brighton, and although he has a successful career as a film-maker (perhaps modelled on that of Alexander Korda) and marries the very English Catherine, he always feels a 'Dago: Jew: Outsider.' 'Yet,' continued Neal Ascherson, 'the rejection is not really the refusal of a snobbish Gentile world fully to accept him. The rejecting force comes from within himself.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A thought-provoking insight into anti-semitism between the wars,' wrote the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, 'not the violent prejudice of Mosley's fascists, but the discreet discrimination of the bourgeoisie.' An exceptional novel about what it means to be an outsider in England, it is also a fascinating portrait of the 1930s film world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more on \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFarewell Leicester Square\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, have a look at the Persephone Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpaper fabric is 'Black Goose' (1938) by EQ (Elsie) Nicholson, a cotton hand printed with lino blocks; the sky-blue background is strikingly beautiful and the black geese have overtones of the 'black sheep' of the family. (It is available to purchase by the metre from Borderline.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eBritish Union of Fascists March, London, 1936\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Betty Miller","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098748604723,"sku":"gtb1789694377682","price":24.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098748637491,"sku":"zgr1789694377683","price":38.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098748670259,"sku":"tce1789694377684","price":35.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098748703027,"sku":"qji1789694377685","price":51.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/farewell-leicester-square_1.jpg?v=1789694381","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/farewell-leicester-square","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}