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Nab End And Beyond

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An omnibus edition comprising the bestselling and widely praised THE ROAD TO NAB END and BEYOND NAB END. William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn - a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup - and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. At 16, William leaves the poverty of Blackburn for London, where he finds no streets paved with gold, but filthy tenements and such squalor only a great city can conceal. He gets a job in an iron foundry and finds lodgings with a beer-swilling landlady and her family - a predatory daughter, and a tattooed madman of a son with whom he has to share his bed. Then, at night school, William discovers his love of learning, which eventually takes him to Plater college, Oxford. As Mosley's blackshirts provoke fighting on the streets, William witnesses the courage of ordinary people in the face of war: a war in which he himself will soon be fighting...

About the Author :
From his birth in 1916 until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community. He eventually went to Oxford University, is now 86 and lives in Florida. Author Location: Florida, USA The Road to Nab End / Beyond Nab End/ Shadows of Glory (0 349 11689 X) The Concise History of the Modern World (0 349 11837 X) Vessel of Sadness (0 349 11811 6)

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[Woodruff] is fast becoming a national treasure ... [he] is one of the last survivors of an age which has almost vanished from memory ... a publishing phenomenon - Times A masterpiece - Independent Extraordinarily well written & vividly told, his book is rich in characters, facts, atmosphere & indomitable spirit. It is absolutely fascinating as a social as well as a family history - Eric Hobsbawm, Guardian


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780349119878
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Abacus
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 736
  • Spine Width: 45 mm
  • Width: 126 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0349119872
  • Publisher Date: 07 Dec 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 485 gr


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