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Home Boys

Autor Alex Wheatle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2020
Inspired by personal experience, a powerful, moving and beautifully structured novel dealing with the lives of children in care, from award-winning author Alex Wheatle.
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ISBN-13: 9781911350934
ISBN-10: 1911350935
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 195 x 129 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Quercus Books

Notă biografică

Alex Wheatle MBE was born in South London in 1963 and is an accomplished and award-winning author of more than a dozen books, including children's and young adult novels. The story of his teenage years was the basis of Steve McQueen's "Alex Wheatle" in the Small Axe series (December 2020), and he has written and performed a play about his life titled Uprising. His novels for adults include the Windrush classic Island Songs, as well as Brixton Rock, Brenton Brown, East of Acre Lane, and Home Boys. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio and film.

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This is a brave, brutal story told with a shocking immediacy. Alex Wheatle has created a disturbing portrait of life in a children s home, in language which is plain, unsparing, and heart-rendingly poignant
Strong and meaningful
This is a book to read and nourish ... For it is a book which never gives up on its characters and, doing such, also never gives up on its readers
Impossible to put down
Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion with the full knowledge and understanding that change can only happen through words and actions
A gripping, horrifying and moving adventure story
I think I went through every emotion possible whilst reading this book and was bereft when I got to the end
With this groundbreaking work of fiction, Wheatle has produced what is truly the most moving book I have read this year
A beautifully written poetic portrayal of loyalty, friendship, and boyhood adventure
Alex Wheatle, always a gripping writer, has given us an important work about life as a kid in care in the 1970s and how brutality and abuse within the system can continue to distort and destroy lives down the years