Stalin Ate My Homework
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2nd September 2010
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Alexei knew he was doomed to be different the day he was taken to see Sergei Eisentein’s Alexander Nevsky instead of Walt Disney’s Bambi. Born on the day that egg rationing came to an end, Alexei grew up with his parents and the Soviet Weekly. Each year they holidayed in Eastern Europe, where they were shown round locomotive factories and the sites of Nazi atrocities.
Very funny and (almost) stranger than Alexei’s fiction, this is a memoir about how Liverpool, Communism and a mother that his teachers were frightened of, made him want to leave home and make people laugh. Unabridged.
Very funny and (almost) stranger than Alexei’s fiction, this is a memoir about how Liverpool, Communism and a mother that his teachers were frightened of, made him want to leave home and make people laugh. Unabridged.
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Reviews
'Sayle shares with [Alan] Bennett the genius for making the mundane fascinating'
If the result is like his other books, it will have a moral centre, there'll be bleak bits - and it will be very funny indeed.
'The brilliant satires on modern life of Alexei Sayle (the only comedian worth his salt as a novelist) are contemporary gems.'
'Being able to wrap up a big moral conundrum with the guise of a fizzing entertainment is a considerable gift...it is wonderfully entertaining and tells us a lot about what it is like to live in 21st century Britain.'
Sayle's book has charm and substance, both as memoir and history.