With hardly a nod to chronology, the author moves back and forth through the first twenty years of his life, from trams, horses and valve wirelesses to scooters, cars and rock and roll, boozy coach trips to the seaside, youth clubs and Carnaby Street fashions. The book is about not being very special at a very special time, an ordinary life during extraordinary times, the bombs had finished falling on London some two years before the author was born and so he entered a world where the sky was the limit and the journey was exciting, though cockroaches and smogs had to be dealt with first. Hand built bicycles and soapcarts made way for Vespa's and Lambretta's while grey flannel shorts and long socks lost out to 60's fashions of flairs and tank tops. A camping holiday and holiday camps, boozing and parties, girls and the lack of them, voyeurism, the cold war and the not so cold war, all of these played a part in life and so deserve a mention in the book. One mans life, humourous and unique, no two lives are the same so this one deserves to be told.
- ISBN:
- 9781449083724
- 9781449083724
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Category:
- Biography: general
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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06-07-2010
- Publisher:
- Authorhouse
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 276
- Dimensions (mm):
- 203x127x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.3kg
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