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The Marx Sisters
Barry Maitland
#UC5832
Paperback, 272 pages; 2009
$14.95
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Like many of my favorite books, The Marx Sisters is concerned with the way the past complicates the present. In this case, the past is the 1930s, when the elderly residents of London’s Jerusalem Lane were first finding the political passions that they’re still debating at top volume. The Marxists bellow into the Anarchists’ hearing aides; the Trotskyites pound their canes in fury; and the younger generation looks on in bemused indulgence, as though these battles were simply some quaint hobby, like a noisier version of cribbage. But when the old folks start dying, even the cops are forced to recognize that for some people, politics can be dead serious.
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