Clever Girl: Growing Up in the 1950s
by Brian Thompson
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Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl - the girl of the title - who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for each other. After a disastrous childhood, he set himself the task of discovering the healing waters of pure ordinariness.Tags
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A deadpan, amiable trot through the life of a young man growing up, and away from his lower-middle-class roots, in 1950s Britain. The self-deprecating tone fits nicely with the retrospective view of a world which was rapidly to become outdated.
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Brian Thompson has written for the stage, radio, television, & is the author of four novels. He divides his time between Oxford, England, & the South of France. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- People/Characters
- Brian Thompson
- Important places
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK; Kenya; Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History, Sociology
- DDC/MDS
- 941.082092 — History & geography History of Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1837- Period of Victoria and House of Windsor 1901-1999
- LCC
- PR6070 .H662 .Z46 — Language and Literature English English Literature 1961-2000
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- Reviews
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- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
