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Item Details
| Title:
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THIS BOY
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| By: |
Alan Johnson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0593069641 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780593069646 |
| Publisher: |
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
9 May, 2013 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. This book tells the story of Alan's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, and domestic violence; and his sister, Linda, who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age . |
| Synopsis: |
Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain, but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother and then to no parents at all...This is essentially the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, domestic violence and loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; and his sister, Linda, who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age and who fought to keep the family together and out of care when she herself was still only a child. Played out against the background of a vanishing community living in condemned housing, the story moves from post-war austerity in pre-gentrified Notting Hill, through the race riots, school on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, to the rock-and-roll years, making a record in Denmark Street and becoming a husband and father whilst still in his teens.This Boy is one man's story, but it is also a story of England and the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details, Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance, of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries. |
| Illustrations: |
8pp photographs |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bantam Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Ondaatje Prize 2014.
Winner of Orwell Prize 2014. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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