{"product_id":"a-radical-romance-9781956474251","title":"A Radical Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA luminous memoir of love and grief from the author of \u003cem\u003eCommon People \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst U.S. Edition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within ten, Raphael would pass away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheirs was an attraction of opposites- he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art.\" -\u003cem\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Remarkable, moving, illuminating. A memoir of cauterizing honesty. This is a book that deserves to be widely read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -MARK BOSTRIDGE, \u003cem\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An inspiring account of ... deep love...\" -\u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e \"Beautifully crafted...it casts a light on the lightness of love and the profound depression of loss. A truly gifted writer.\" -\u003cem\u003eHERALD\u003c\/em\u003e \"The portrait of Spitalfields is superb, and so is the account of Raphael's astonishing mother Minna.\" -MARGARET DRABBLE, \u003cem\u003eTLS, BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Compulsively readable. Light is a shrewd narrator...She reflects with careful psychological and philosophical insight on the reality of loneliness and profound loss following ten years of marriage...Light is also a poet and it shows in certain suppositions and propositions...\" -\u003cem\u003eRTE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Heliotrope Books LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50498285306130,"sku":"9781956474251","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_60788d00-fd08-48fa-bc35-3bdcdf53da3f.jpg?v=1730730632","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-radical-romance-9781956474251","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}