Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to "The Road to Nab End" - Couverture rigide

Woodruff, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316725307 ISBN 13 : 9780316725309

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 2003

Synopsis

The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. His digs are with an old couple in Bow where he has to share a single bed (head to toe) with their mentally retarded son. Life in the foundry is grim but William is indomitable. For recreation one day he cycles (then in the days before inflatable tyres) to Berkhamstead to try and track down an old girlfriend. She's not there and he has to return in a snowstorm - it takes him eight hours to get back to Poplar and then he has to get up three hours later to work at the foundry. Eventually he decides to "get some leernin" and his first white-collar job starts for the Water Board. Continuing to pursue his studies, he finally wins a place at Ruskin College, Oxford. How the ex-steel worker became an Oxford academic - and William's description of returning from the war to meet the son he's never seen - concludes this second volume.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 85 and lives in Florida.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316725307
• ISBN 13: 9780316725309
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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