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John Sutherland's childhood ended before it began: when his father was killed flying a Wellington bomber. Half-orphaned, John was abandoned when his widowed mother decamped to Argentina with a new man. He was brought up by an assortment of well-meaning relatives and had an odd, unsettled childhood. He took refuge in books. But then his solitary reading habit merged into a bad drinking habit. THE BOY WHO LOVED BOOKS is the story of one man's, often desperate, love affair with reading matter; with drink and with an adored, but absent, parent. And during the shifting twentieth century, when profound changes shook society, it is also a personal account of what it was like to be a grammar-school boy, a national-service man and a redbrick graduate.Product Identifiers
PublisherF. A. Thorpe (Publishers)
ISBN-139781847825599
eBay Product ID (ePID)90096349
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Boy Who Loved Books
AuthorJohn Sutherland
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMemorials
Publication Year2009
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Width150 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJohn Sutherland