'T.H. Huxley, a 19th century scientist and writer, said "Autobiographies are essentially works of fiction"...what I intended to write was a second volume of autobiography mixed in with an historiette of the almost defunct Cork-Jewish community. Of course what I needed for the teller was a character old enough to be able to retell sufficient and sufficiently interesting extracts from the more than century old Cork Jews' story. 'Where did Aaron come from, or how? I didn't clone him - if I had, we would have been genetically identical. That, we certainly weren't; he didn't come from me, he just came to me, and he quickly became both a sort of Jewish seanachie-historian, and an old man with a missing life. He found a missing life, a late one, but a deserved one.'
- ISBN10 1860231578
- ISBN13 9781860231575
- Publish Date August 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 August 2009
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint The Mercier Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English