My Own Worst Enemy
| Autor: | Edric, Robert |
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| EAN: | 9781800750838 |
| Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 272 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.09.2022 |
| Untertitel: | Scenes of a Childhood |
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'A small masterpiece' The SpectatorMy Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely. With a novelist's eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished era: of working-men's clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman's place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended - though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father. My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place - the Sheffield of half a century ago - and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong.
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