Odd boy out
Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-2021
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'I am what my childhood made me.' But what is that exactly, Gyles? Who are you? And why? In this book, Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family. It is a story about the ordinary things - family life, happiness, ambition, and love, but it is also about adventures - meeting princes and presidents, visiting Death Row in America, exploring the sex clubs of Copenhagen. It is a story of a boy blessed with wit and what he got up to and the people he met growing up in the most wonderful city in all the world in those extraordinary years after the Second World War.
Main title:
Odd boy out / Gyles Brandreth.
Author:
Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-, author
Imprint:
UK : Michael Joseph, 2021.
Collation:
vii, 439 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.Illustrations on lining papers.
ISBN:
9780241483718 (hbk)
Dewey class:
791.45028092791.45028B/BRA791.45028 BRAB.BRA920 BRA791.45
Local class:
791.45028092 B BRA
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3136107
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