# Germs

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- Book: [Germs](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-wollheim/germs) ([Germs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-wollheim/germs.md))
- Authors: [Richard Wollheim](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-wollheim)
- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5277-690-5
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2010-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The son of affluent parents - a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless 'Gaiety Girl' mother he came to regret loathing - Richard Wollheim grew up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s. Germs is his account of those years. It is a book like no other; a remarkable exploration of childhood by one of the English-speaking world's most distinguished postwar thinkers.