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The Threshold

Michael Stapleton

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Description:The term ‘displaced person’ has taken on a special meaning in our day and age, but its implications can be applied with equal truth to the plight of many children who find themselves uprooted at an early age. Not from their homes, merely, though that is often the first wrench; but also the uprooting which is inevitable when they begin to question the values by which their early lives are lived. The very young are often blessed with a merciful faculty of forgetting, but some things always remain to haunt their later lives as unfinished business.The factors that made a displaced person of Michael Stapleton are the subject of this book, commencing with the family’s departure from Ireland while he was a small child. In the alien air of London the family remained a close knit Irish unit, further delaying the children’s adjustment to a new kind of life. The adjustment might well have been made, but for a visit to Ireland that threw open a door on a half–forgotten memory. The magic of that brief visit was to colour a childhood spent in the London of the depressed thirties, when his beloved mother died and his father, workless, had to do his best for his four children with the dole.Throughout this period it was the sister who with her courage and love sustained them, and to whom they turned for the warmth and reassurance that left their lives with their mother’s death. As the years pass the author reaches the point where for all of us, sooner or later, childhood ends—the point where the child begins to question the values given him by others, and begins to seek his own.It is at this point that Michael Stapleton closes his book, which, he says, laid a number of ghosts for him. It is the first autobiography to be published by New Authors Ltd. Its reflective honesty and realism, as well as the slow beauty of recreation, will let it find a place among those few books which work quiet magic by turning a world that time and distance have made seem drab into one where the secret individuality of the moment is never blurred or forgotten.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Threshold. To get started finding The Threshold, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 272

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: New Authors LImited

Release: 1958

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Description: The term ‘displaced person’ has taken on a special meaning in our day and age, but its implications can be applied with equal truth to the plight of many children who find themselves uprooted at an early age. Not from their homes, merely, though that is often the first wrench; but also the uprooting which is inevitable when they begin to question the values by which their early lives are lived. The very young are often blessed with a merciful faculty of forgetting, but some things always remain to haunt their later lives as unfinished business.The factors that made a displaced person of Michael Stapleton are the subject of this book, commencing with the family’s departure from Ireland while he was a small child. In the alien air of London the family remained a close knit Irish unit, further delaying the children’s adjustment to a new kind of life. The adjustment might well have been made, but for a visit to Ireland that threw open a door on a half–forgotten memory. The magic of that brief visit was to colour a childhood spent in the London of the depressed thirties, when his beloved mother died and his father, workless, had to do his best for his four children with the dole.Throughout this period it was the sister who with her courage and love sustained them, and to whom they turned for the warmth and reassurance that left their lives with their mother’s death. As the years pass the author reaches the point where for all of us, sooner or later, childhood ends—the point where the child begins to question the values given him by others, and begins to seek his own.It is at this point that Michael Stapleton closes his book, which, he says, laid a number of ghosts for him. It is the first autobiography to be published by New Authors Ltd. Its reflective honesty and realism, as well as the slow beauty of recreation, will let it find a place among those few books which work quiet magic by turning a world that time and distance have made seem drab into one where the secret individuality of the moment is never blurred or forgotten.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Threshold. To get started finding The Threshold, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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