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In This Dark House is a riveting memoir of a daughter's search to uncover the true identity of a mysterious father whose secretive past extends long shadows on a family's life. In 1939, at the pinnacle of an eminent career as an avant-garde architect, Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin, not yet forty years old, stunned the British art world by leaving his thriving practice in London and moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural England they called World's End.
Only after his death at the age of eighty-eight did Louise begin slowly to discover the tragic truth he had been hiding all his life - a truth that would become the heart of her own. In this extraordinary memoir Louise Kehoe gives us a haunting account of her recovery of self in the revelation of her father's secret - an unforgettable story of lost and found.
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In This Dark House
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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In This Dark House: A Memoir
August 7, 2001, Schocken
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0805210172 9780805210170
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In This Dark House: A Memoir
March 1, 1997, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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0140253378 9780140253375
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In This Dark House
June 17, 1997, Random House Value Publishing
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0517193337 9780517193334
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In this dark house: a memoir
1995, Schocken Books, Distributed by Pantheon Books
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0805241221 9780805241228
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In 1939 the influential architect Berthold Lubetkin abruptly left his thriving career in London and dropped out of sight, moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural Gloucestershire. Life in the house the Lubetkins named "World's End" was far from idyllic for their three children. Louise Kehoe and her siblings lived in an atmosphere of oppressive isolation, while their tyrannical father--at times charming and witty but usually a terrorist in a self-styled Stalinist hell--badgered and belittled them during his fits of self-loathing. Even his true identity remained an enigma. That secret was never divulged during her father's lifetime, but Louise's quest to unearth its tragic origins--her relentless piecing together of the clues she found after his death--is a remarkable story, written with extraordinary grace, style, and imagination, of an identity and a heritage lost and found.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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