My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood

di Robert Edric (Autore)

Swift Press, 2022

'A small masterpiece' The Spectator My Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely. With a novelist's eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished era: of working-men’s clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman’s place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended – though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father. My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place – the Sheffield of half a century ago – and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong.

• Autore: Robert Edric
• Editore: Swift Press
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 272 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• EAN: 9781800750838

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