Author: Bill BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781407239880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Billy Brown, I'll tell Your Mother
Author: Bill BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781407239880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother
Author: Bill BrownPublisher: Seven Dials
ISBN: 1409122778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A riveting and hugely entertaining memoir of post-war London told through the eyes of a hilariously opportunistic little boy. 'This warm and witty autobiography lovingly evokes the community spirit of a Britain emerging from war and will have you hankering after simpler times' CANDIS By the time he was ten years old, Billy Brown was running a successful little business on the black market: whatever you needed, from bricks and firewood to dress material or machetes, Billy Brown could get it - or knew a man who could. And, for the right price, he would deliver it direct to your door in an old carriage pram. With energy and insight, Billy Brown paints a vivid and lively picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of the war, the hunger for opportunity, the growing pace of modernisation and the pride and optimism that held communities together. Londoners were intent on getting themselves back on their feet, and it provided the perfect opportunity for a boy with ambition and a lively imagination. Born in Brixton, south London, in 1942, Billy Brown was a lovable scamp with a nose for mischief. Left to his own devices while both his parents went out to work, if there was trouble to be had Billy would be in the thick of it. Ignoring the shaking of fists from his neighbours, his mother's scoldings and the regular thwack of the cane on his bottom at school, Billy wheeled and dealed, charmed Woolies' Girls, planned coronation celebrations, ran circles around circus performers and persuaded villains to work on his terms.
Billy Brown Tell Your Mother Signed
Author: Billy BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780857571601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother
Author: Billy BrownPublisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781409120940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A riveting and hugely entertaining memoir of post-war London told through the eyes of a hilariously opportunistic little boy. By the time he was ten years old, Billy Brown was running a successful little business on the black market: whatever you needed, from bricks and firewood to dress material or machetes, Billy Brown could get it - or knew a man who could. And, for the right price, he would deliver it direct to your door in an old carriage pram. With energy and insight, Billy Brown paints a vivid and lively picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of the war, the hunger for opportunity, the growing pace of modernisation and the pride and optimism that held communities together. Londoners were intent on getting themselves back on their feet, and it provided the perfect opportunity for a boy with ambition and a lively imagination. Born in Brixton, south London, in 1942, Billy Brown was a lovable scamp with a nose for mischief. Left to his own devices while both his parents went out to work, if there was trouble to be had Billy would be in the thick of it. Ignoring the shaking of fists from his neighbours, his mother's scoldings and the regular thwack of the cane on his bottom at school, Billy wheeled and dealed, charmed Woolies' Girls, planned coronation celebrations, ran circles around circus performers and persuaded villains to work on his terms.
Body Leaping Backward
Author: Maureen StantonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1328900363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The “mesmerizing . . . daring and important”* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus III For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton’s once-solid family lost its way. A promising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchful as her parents separate and her now-single mother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny, anything to keep a toehold in the middle class for her children. No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, Stanton too slips into delinquency—vandalism, breaking and entering—all while nearly erasing herself through addiction to angel dust, a homemade form of PCP that swept through her hometown in the wake of Nixon’s “total war” on drugs. Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be.
Success Magazine
Author: An O'Neill Concordance
Author: Norfolk and Western Magazine
Author: Norfolk and Western Railway CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The Diary and Letters of Benjamin Pickman (1740-1819) of Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Benjamin PickmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America
Author: Burns MantlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description