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A Ragged Schooling

Growing Up in the Classic Slum

Robert Roberts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:5th Jun '97

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With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship.

'One of the best and most sensitive of English working-class autobiographies'
The Guardian

' A marvelous piece of work ... this vivid portrait of a vanished community ... bubbles with comic vitality
Spectator

'The autobiography of an exceptional man ... a memoir of quite extraordinary richness'
The Observer

ISBN: 9781901341010

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm

Weight: 227g

224 pages