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This boy [Audiobook] download free by Alan Johnson

This boy Audiobook download free by Alan Johnson
  • Listen audiobook: This boy
  • Author: Alan Johnson
  • Release date: 2014/12/22
  • Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Biography
  • ISBN: 9780552167017
  • Rating: 7.88 of 10
  • Votes: 345
  • Review by: Gerardo Starnes
  • Review rating: 7.56 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/15
  • Duration: 3H51M54S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-18
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, OPUS, MPEG4, MP3, FLAC, WMA, OGG, MPC (compression ZIP, RAR, TZO, CPIO, CHM, 7-ZIP)
  • Total pages original book: 304
  • Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 21M3S (5.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, British & Irish History, Memoirs, Central Government
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 11.21 USD
  • Dimensions: 127x198x20mm
  • Weight: 221g
  • Printed by: Corgi Books
  • Published in: London, United Kingdom

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