![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was called living "on the town" and it was frowned upon. You get a good idea of the difficulties the family went through as they were evicted twice, each time moving into a home of lesser size and quality, and the mother had to beg the selectment of Anneville to give them a weekly allowance. The Robinsons' father absconded early in the book, leaving a mother with 6 children, no income, and no relatives nearby. Thomas, the author, is clearly Thos in the book (one of 6 children) and the book is told in past tense, third person, but you mostly see things from his perspective. ![]() I don't think it was necessary to rename the book a novel within the intro, but it's a nice touch since there have been some controversies about invented memoirs in recent years.Īs to the content, Anneville is absolutely charming. Anneville is a memoir with names of people and places changed and written with as much accuracy as memory provides but in the introduction the author refers to it as a novel because he's aware that memory is imperfect. Robinson is a little confusing, title-wise. Anneville: A Memoir of the Great Depression by Thomas G. ![]()
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