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The House is Full of Yogis电子书

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作       者:Will Hodgkinson

出  版  社:The Borough Press

出版时间:2014-06-05

字       数:41.8万

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A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents Neville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership, aspiration and advancement. The first children of their working class parents to go to university and have professional careers, they lived in a semi-detached house in Richmond, sent their sons Tom and Will to private school, and went on holiday to Greece once a year. Neville was an award-winning science writer and Liz was a high-earning tabloid hack. Then a disastrous boat holiday, followed by a life-threatening bout of food poisoning from a contaminated turkey, led to the search for a new way of life. Nev joined the Brahma Kumaris, who believe evolution is a myth, time is circular, and a forthcoming Armageddon will make way for a new Golden Age. Out went drunken dinner parties and Victorian décor schemes; in came large women in saris meditating in the living room and lurid paintings of smiling deities on the walls. Liz took the arrival of the Brahma Kumaris as a chance to wage all-out war on convention, from announcing her newfound celibacy on prime time television to writing books that questioned the value of getting married and raising children. By an unfortunate coincidence, this dramatic and highly public transformation of the self coincided with the onset of Will’s adolescence. This is his story.
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Title Page

Copyright

About the Book

About the Author

Praise for The House is Full of Yogis

Dedication

Contents

1. The First Party

2. The Boat Holiday

3. The Wrong Chicken

4. Nev Returns

5. Enter The Brahma Kumaris

6. The End Of The World

7. The Second Party

8. Forest School Camps

9. Delinquency

10. Frensham Heights

11. The Third Party

12. Florida

13. Sex Is Not Compulsory

14. Surrender

Epilogue

Glossary

Acknowledgements

Picture Section

About the Publisher

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