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- Published: 15 November 2012
- ISBN: 9781448159635
- Imprint: RH AudioGo
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 7 hr 32 min
- Narrator: Richard Russo
On Helwig Street
A memoir
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- Published: 15 November 2012
- ISBN: 9781448159635
- Imprint: RH AudioGo
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 7 hr 32 min
- Narrator: Richard Russo
I loved this very affectionate and haunting portrayal of Russo’s mother and the glove-making world gone by. The man as a boy watching his own mother’s helpless and scattered journey through her illness, describing in touching detail what the boy knew but only the man can say. It reminds me of the power that a personal story can have
Hugo Hamilton, author of 'The Speckled People'