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A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum

A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum

by RobertRoberts (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $15.95

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    Paperback 1978

    $3.34
Synopsis

With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 228
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 01 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 1901341011
ISBN 13: 9781901341010

Media Reviews
'One of the best and most sensitive of English working-class autobiographies' The Guardian ' A marvelous piece of work ... this vivid portrait of a vanished community ... bubbles with comic vitality Spectator 'The autobiography of an exceptional man ... a memoir of quite extraordinary richness' The Observer -- .
Author Bio
Robert Roberts (1905-1979) was born in Salford in 1905. His books 'The Classic Slum' and 'A Ragged Schooling' have been hailed as classics of working class autobiography