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Odd boy out

Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-2022
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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.
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
vii, 439 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes index.Originally published: UK: Michael Joseph, 2021.Illustrations and text on inside covers.
ISBN:
9780241483756 (pbk)
Dewey class:
791.45028092791.45028B/BRA791.45791.45028 BRA920 BRA
Local class:
B BRA
Language:
English
BRN:
3254369
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