{"product_id":"9780857054937","title":"Pedigree","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Modiano, Patrick, Polizzotti, Mark \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/09\/2016,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 112 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780857054937,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me'Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete with insecurity and sorrow that informed the oeuvre of France's Nobel Laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his sometime-actress mother and shady businessman father barely functioning in any parental role, the young Modiano spent his childhood being packed off to the care of others, or held at a safe distance in a grimy boarding school - which he ran away from several times. His impecunious mother had 'a heart of stone'; his womanising father once called the police when his son asked him for money, and later ceased all contact with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut for all his parents' indifference, it is the death of his younger brother when Modiano is eleven that cuts deepest, leaving a wound that can never be healed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57697450525045,"sku":"9780857054937","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780857054937.jpg?v=1793097549","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9780857054937","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}