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Eggs, Chips & Leo’s Cafe
Authentic slice of East End working-class life
MEMORY LANE: Hackney Downs and Dalston Lane, East London, 1960s postcard
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A GROWING political awareness underscores Eggs, Chips & Leo’s Cafe, Brian Capaloff’s entertaining and poignant collection of reminiscences.
Being a memoir, these recollections might otherwise be of somewhat random occurrences, but the author’s socialist analysis ensures that they are each viewed as stepping stones to explaining the man he is today.
In an explanatory note at the start of the book, Capaloff is clear that this is an assertion of his and others’ working-class identity and not another book about the so-called middle class.
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