Young Winstone [electronic resource] / Ray Winstone and Ben Thompson.

Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, 'Young Winstone...

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Main Author: Winstone, Ray, 1957-
Other Authors: Thompson, Ben, 1973-
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2014.
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Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, 'Young Winstone' offers a fascinating social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch -- Source other than Library of Congress.
ISBN:9781782112440 (online)