My own worst enemy : scenes of a Sheffield childhood
Edric, Robert, 1956-2022
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In this account of his childhood, Robert Edric writes of his upbringing in working-class Sheffield throughout the '60s and early '70s with both compassion and unflinching honesty. Based wholly on Edric's own memories and long-repeated family tales, this memoir reveals the small, often claustrophobic and inward-looking world which both formed him as a child and afterwards helped inform him as a writer. Chief among these interwoven recollections are the ordinary, everyday stories and memories of the day to day life of his own family and of the relatives and neighbours around him; of his education as a grammar school boy of that time; and, most particularly, of the lives of his parents, whose own childhoods during the Second World War and afterwards formed by far the most influential part of that upbringing.
Main title:
My own worst enemy : scenes of a Sheffield childhood / Robert Edric.
Author:
Edric, Robert, 1956-, author
Imprint:
London : Swift Press, 2022.
Collation:
272 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781800750814 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92BEDR
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
883326