When All the World Was Young A Memoir

Acclaimed writer Barbara Holland, whom the "Philadelphia Inquirer "has called " a national treasure, " finally tells her own story with this atmospheric account of a postwar American childhood. "When All the World Was Young" is Holland's account of growing up in Washington, D.C., during the 1940s and ' 50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past. Mixing tales of an autocratic stepfather, a brilliant, reclusive mother, and a houseful of siblings with jump-rope rhymes and dangerous sled runs, teachers both wise and weird, and a child' s-eye view of war, Holland gives readers a unique and sharp-eyed look at history and the world of childhood as it used to be.Holland, Barbara is the author of 'When All the World Was Young A Memoir', published 2006 under ISBN 9781596910904 and ISBN 1596910909.