Nab End and Beyond: The Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End - Brossura

Woodruff, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349119872 ISBN 13: 9780349119878

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2006

Riassunto

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn - a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup - and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. At 16, William leaves the poverty of Blackburn for London, where he finds no streets paved with gold, but filthy tenements and such squalor only a great city can conceal. He gets a job in an iron foundry and finds lodgings with a beer-swilling landlady and her family - a predatory daughter, and a tattooed madman of a son with whom he has to share his bed. Then, at night school, William discovers his love of learning, which eventually takes him to Plater college, Oxford. As Mosley's blackshirts provoke fighting on the streets, William witnesses the courage of ordinary people in the face of war: a war in which he himself will soon be fighting . . .

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Recensione:

[Woodruff] is fast becoming a national treasure ... [he] is one of the last survivors of an age which has almost vanished from memory ... a publishing phenomenon (Times)

A masterpiece (Independent)

Extraordinarily well written & vividly told, his book is rich in characters, facts, atmosphere & indomitable spirit. It is absolutely fascinating as a social as well as a family history (Eric Hobsbawm, Guardian)

Descrizione del libro:

* An omnibus edition comprising the bestselling and widely praised THE ROAD TO NAB END and BEYOND NAB END. * 'A terrific story with an archetypal rags-to-riches dimension. It is nostalgic, vivid and charming' OBSERVER

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0349119872
• ISBN 13: 9780349119878
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 724