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Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival - Tapa blanda

Godley, Janey

 
9780091908775: Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0091908779 ISBN 13: 9780091908775
Editorial: Ebury Press, 2006

Sinopsis

Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal family as a teenager, then found herself having to cope with the murder of her mother, violence, religious sectarianism, abject poverty and a frightening family of in-laws.

First-hand, Janey saw the gangland violence and met extraordinary characters within an enclosed and seldom-revealed Glasgow underworld - from the grim and far-from-Swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of heroin addiction which swept through and engulfed Glasgow's East End during the 1980s.

This evocative, intimate and moving portrayal of a woman forced to fight every day for her family's future will strike a chord with anyone who has ever struggled against adversity.

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Acerca del autor

Janey Godley is an award-winning comedian from Glasgow and something very different on the comedy circuit. She has performed stand-up all over the world and had her first play performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2003. This is her first book.

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Editorial
Ebury Press
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0091908779
ISBN 13 
9780091908775
Encuadernación
Libro de bolsillo
Número de páginas
416
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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