Description
| Product ID: | 9781800750838 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | My Own Worst Enemy |
| Subtitle: | Scenes of a Childhood |
| Authors: | Author: Robert Edric |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Yorkshire, c 1960 to c 1970 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'A small masterpiece' The SpectatorMy Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely. With a novelist's eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished era: of working-men’s clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman’s place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended – though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father. My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place – the Sheffield of half a century ago – and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong. ''A small masterpiece'' The Spectator My Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely. With a novelist''s eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished era: of working-men’s clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman’s place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended – though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father. My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place – the Sheffield of half a century ago – and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong. |
| Imprint Name: | Swift Press |
| Publisher Name: | Swift Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-01 |