Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope - Couverture rigide

Clare, Horatio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719569168 ISBN 13 : 9780719569166

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

At thirteen Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy's public school, a privileged member of an apparently blessed generation. A rebel -- one of those who detested the system, who thought it not just fun but right to break its laws -- he was expelled for smoking dope. He became one of the thousands who gleefully ignored the warnings and set out, in search of experience and intensity, to slalom on the slippery slope. He was a truant in its original sense: one who beggars himself through choice, not necessity. From university campuses to the rooftops of New York; from Brixton basements to fear and loathing in Mid Devon, through psychosis, mania and depression, from sanity to madness and back again, this is a portrait drawn from a generation that turned to drugs. And it is a search for understanding: why do we do these things, and what do they do to us? What were we looking for and what did we find?

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À propos de l'auteur

Horatio Clare has worked on Front Row and Nightwaves, and produced Radio 3's The Verb. Born in 1975, Clare has written for The Spectator, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719569168
• ISBN 13: 9780719569166
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible