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Author: Eilidh Nisbet Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467006297 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 335
Book Description
How were your schooldays – happy, horrible, or just a bit crazy? For one teenager, writing in Austerity Britain sixty years ago, they were a mixture of all three, but it was the craziness that stood out in retrospect. Eastwood School, near Glasgow, went through a very lively period in the years following the Second World War. Many of the staff were young men not long back from the forces, often as high-spirited as the pupils they strove to teach. Yet somehow, they earned respect from these rowdy pupils. Relations between staff and pupils were generally good, with the teachers emerging as the real heroes of the piece. Many things were done differently in the days before calculators, computers, mobile phones and iPods. Ball-point pens and television existed, but not many people had either, and even paper was in short supply. Other aspects no doubt remain much the same. All school life is chronicled here: high jinks to alleviate the boredom of classes; the giggling girls and the earnest students; the blushes of embarrassment; the dramas and disasters of exams; hopes and disappointments; crushes on teachers; the excitement of concerts, dances and sports events, which included annual contests of pupils versus staff in hockey, cricket, badminton and tennis. For many, the “Staff Hockey” was the highlight of the school year. Food, of course, was still rationed, and the dinner-ladies did not have an easy life. All these activities, interwoven with the on-going saga of the disintegrating bicycle and keen observation of teachers and fellow-pupils, are linked by one pupil’s odyssey from gawky fourteen-year-old “new girl”, desperately trying to fit in, to senior student eager to move on to the next stage of life. This account is an edited version of the author’s diaries from 1948 to 1951. Irreverent illustrations were added at a later date.
Author: Eilidh Nisbet Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467006297 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 335
Book Description
How were your schooldays – happy, horrible, or just a bit crazy? For one teenager, writing in Austerity Britain sixty years ago, they were a mixture of all three, but it was the craziness that stood out in retrospect. Eastwood School, near Glasgow, went through a very lively period in the years following the Second World War. Many of the staff were young men not long back from the forces, often as high-spirited as the pupils they strove to teach. Yet somehow, they earned respect from these rowdy pupils. Relations between staff and pupils were generally good, with the teachers emerging as the real heroes of the piece. Many things were done differently in the days before calculators, computers, mobile phones and iPods. Ball-point pens and television existed, but not many people had either, and even paper was in short supply. Other aspects no doubt remain much the same. All school life is chronicled here: high jinks to alleviate the boredom of classes; the giggling girls and the earnest students; the blushes of embarrassment; the dramas and disasters of exams; hopes and disappointments; crushes on teachers; the excitement of concerts, dances and sports events, which included annual contests of pupils versus staff in hockey, cricket, badminton and tennis. For many, the “Staff Hockey” was the highlight of the school year. Food, of course, was still rationed, and the dinner-ladies did not have an easy life. All these activities, interwoven with the on-going saga of the disintegrating bicycle and keen observation of teachers and fellow-pupils, are linked by one pupil’s odyssey from gawky fourteen-year-old “new girl”, desperately trying to fit in, to senior student eager to move on to the next stage of life. This account is an edited version of the author’s diaries from 1948 to 1951. Irreverent illustrations were added at a later date.
Author: Tobias Wolff Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375701494 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.
Author: Howard Sounes Publisher: Doubleday Canada ISBN: 0307367967 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 658
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He is one of the most famous, most wealthy people on the planet, and yet he remains little-known and understood as a personality. At long last, Paul McCartney is the subject of a major, deeply researched, psychologically acute biography. It tells a story that will illuminate and surprise. The publication finds McCartney - who turns 70 in 2012 - revitalized as a performer (touring with a set of mostly Beatles songs) and a man buffeted by profound changes in recent years: the death of his first wife, Linda; the death of George Harrison; a second marriage, to Heather Mills, and its spectacular failure, the fall-out from which is still crashing around him.
Author: Dave Diss Publisher: The Book Guild, Lewes, East Sussex ISBN: 9781857769272 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 412
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This is the opening volume (Volume 1) of a series of Autobiography. Serious stuff. Volume 2 is "Creatures of Our Time, in a Land fit for Heroes" dealing with my efforts to become a civilian after nine years of bobbing up and down on the seven seas. Volume 3 is "Australia Ahoy!", from the arrival of my family of five at Outer Harbor in sunny South Australia on "Castel Felice", a vessel of the Italian Sitmar Line and our adventures in this exciting country, where surely, nothing could ever go wrong...
Author: Louisa May Alcott Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1665926198 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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Over the course of summers spent with a much wealthier friend, a country girl struggles to stay true to herself and her values in this tender story from Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women! When fourteen-year-old Polly Milton goes to stay with her friend Fanny for the summer, she finds that the Shaw family’s wealthy city life couldn’t be more different from her country upbringing. With her plain clothes and more practical interests, Polly is out of place among a crowd focused on following the latest trends and presenting the right image. One of the few people who doesn’t pressure her to fit in is Fanny’s brother, Tom, but he’s also one of the most annoying people Polly has ever met. Over the next six years, Polly’s annual visits challenge the Shaw family to question their values even as Polly feels pressured to conform to societal expectations, though she remains old-fashioned at heart. As Polly navigates the highs and lows of growing up, friendship, love, and fortune, her greatest challenge is being true to herself.
Author: Tobias Wolff Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks ISBN: 9780747574651 Category : Authors Languages : en Pages : 195
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It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy in his final year, on a scholarship, has learned to fit in with his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself and his background. Class is ever present, but the only acknowledged snobbery is a literary snobbery. These boys' heroes are writers - Fitzgerald, Cummings, Kerouac. They want to be writers themselves, and the school has a tradition whereby once a term big names from the literary world are invited to visit. A contest takes place with the boys admitting a piece of writing and the winner having a private audience with the visitor. When it is announced that Hemingway will be the next to come to the school, competition among the boys is intense, and the morals the school and the boys hold dear - honour, loyalty and friendship - are tested. No one writes more astutely than Wolff about the process by which character is formed, and here he illuminates the irresistible strength, even the violence, of the self-creative urge. This is a novel that, in its power and its beauty, in its precision and its humanity, is at once contemporary and timeless.
Author: Eilidh Nisbet Publisher: Authorhouse UK ISBN: 1452083363 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 335
Book Description
How were your schooldays happy, horrible, or just a bit crazy? For one teenager, writing in Austerity Britain sixty years ago, they were a mixture of all three, but it was the craziness that stood out in retrospect. Eastwood School, near Glasgow, went through a very lively period in the years following the Second World War. Many of the staff were young men not long back from the forces, often as high-spirited as the pupils they strove to teach. Yet somehow, they earned respect from these rowdy pupils. Relations between staff and pupils were generally good, with the teachers emerging as the real heroes of the piece. Many things were done differently in the days before calculators, computers, mobile phones and iPods. Ball-point pens and television existed, but not many people had either, and even paper was in short supply. Other aspects no doubt remain much the same. All school life is chronicled here: high jinks to alleviate the boredom of classes; the giggling girls and the earnest students; the blushes of embarrassment; the dramas and disasters of exams; hopes and disappointments; crushes on teachers; the excitement of concerts, dances and sports events, which included annual contests of pupils versus staff in hockey, cricket, badminton and tennis. For many, the "Staff Hockey" was the highlight of the school year. Food, of course, was still rationed, and the dinner-ladies did not have an easy life. All these activities, interwoven with the on-going saga of the disintegrating bicycle and keen observation of teachers and fellow-pupils, are linked by one pupil's odyssey from gawky fourteen-year-old "new girl", desperately trying to fit in, to senior student eager to move on to the next stage of life. This account is an edited version of the author's diaries from 1948 to 1951. Irreverent illustrations were added at a later date.
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