Bettie's Books

Dedication:

For Bob and Dash

22 photographs of both house and internees.

Opening:

Part 1 The House on the Hill
June- November 1940

All genuine poetry is in a sense the formation
of private spheres out of a public chaos. - WH Auden



In the town there were two mutes, and they were
always together. Early every morning they would
come out from the house where they lived and
walk arm in arm down the street to work...
- Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Summer in New York is never pleasant, as tempers rise with the temperature and the noises, smells and colors of Manhattan intensify in the humid air. In June 1940, conditions were made worse by the alarming state of world events.

Astounding reading that should have garnered a 5* but for the repetition by the author - once noticed, it became glaring. However that did not detract too much from finding about that year, and those people in a one-off situation.

Auden & Britten: http://youtu.be/zmciuKsBOi0
Danny Kaye: Tchaikovsky: http://youtu.be/hh-wOvuOHPE



Listopia linked to this book: http://www.goodreads.com/list/user_vote/2010063