Shaking - Couverture souple

Higgins, Jim

 
9781434389947: Shaking
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1434389944 ISBN 13 : 9781434389947
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2008

Synopsis

The SHAKING trilogy: part one SHAKING. The younger members of the family were being re-housed in the peripheral housing scheme and life including Jim's with cerebral palsy. Annie and Johnnie get re-housed in a five-apartment flat. They live through the Blitz. Cathie meets Jimmy and have a troubled sectarian marriage, experiences a difficult birth with Jim. Jimmy is demobed after serving in the War. He gets a job as a slater and plasterer and gets "plastered" (drunk) quite often! He falls from roofs. Separations and reunions. They move to different homes in the city. They discover that Jim; their first child has cerebral palsy, because of the accident with the forceps at birth. There are changes in the lives of the other members of Annie and Johnnie's family. Jim's school days cause trouble at home and school. He attends a school for handicapped. He then attends a school for "able-bodied" children. Life's difficulties increase with ridiculed and bullying He learns about sex He questions his faith. This affects his health and schooling when he is there and not away receiving speech and physiotherapy Jimmy goes out to the library goes missing. Eventually arriving in Hong Kong, Months later, he arrives home with serious problems. Trilogy 2 "HEAD-BOY" and 3 "STILL SHAKING"

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Biographie de l'auteur

I was employed in mechanical engineering, and I am on the management committee of the housing association and served on sub-committees including finance, staffing and appeals. Also Chairman of WestWorks Ltd. And Scotinch Services Ltd which I do voluntary to assist my community and create local employment. I attended a special school for handicapped children, and clinics for physiotherapy. I worked at a publishers, then an engineering course at The National Spastics Society training centre, then worked in commercial vehicle manufacturing. My interest are varied: local, national and international politics. Computing and video production, theatre, cinema, reading and writing. I have cerebral palsy and have been married for thirty years with one daughter. I participated in a television programme produced in my home about tenement refurbishment. And also featured an interview with me about my writing. I also appear on a DVD production for Community Scotland - Wider Action. My manuscripts are: the trilogy SHAKING / HEAD-BOY / STILL SHAKING myseries of children's books: THE ENCHANTED NURSERY featuring: NESSIE'S FRIENDS / HEATHER AND HAMISH / PERCY PENGUIN / REGGIE RABBIT / FUN INFLORIDA. Other writing pursuits are: JIMMY full-length comedy-drama screenplay A GOOD MOVE thirty minute comedy, HEATHER AND HAMISH short screenplay of children's story - all are adaptations from my manuscripts, and "SHOULD WE STILL GO?" short play/screenplay toi illustrate the diversity of my writing. My registered copyright and trademark at Companies House are: Jim Higginsall rights reserved Higgiland Enterprises I have suggestions/recommendations for commercial and enterprise in relation to my books and screenplays, and MY SHAKING HANDS productions. Jim Higgins, Higgiland Enterprises

Présentation de l'éditeur

The SHAKING trilogy: part one SHAKING. The younger members of the family were being re-housed in the peripheral housing scheme and life including Jim's with cerebral palsy. Annie and Johnnie get re-housed in a five-apartment flat. They live through the Blitz. Cathie meets Jimmy and have a troubled sectarian marriage, experiences a difficult birth with Jim. Jimmy is demobed after serving in the War. He gets a job as a slater and plasterer and gets "plastered" (drunk) quite often! He falls from roofs. Separations and reunions. They move to different homes in the city. They discover that Jim; their first child has cerebral palsy, because of the accident with the forceps at birth. There are changes in the lives of the other members of Annie and Johnnie's family. Jim's school days cause trouble at home and school. He attends a school for handicapped. He then attends a school for "able-bodied" children. Life's difficulties increase with ridiculed and bullying He learns about sex He questions his faith. This affects his health and schooling when he is there and not away receiving speech and physiotherapy Jimmy goes out to the library goes missing. Eventually arriving in Hong Kong, Months later, he arrives home with serious problems. Trilogy 2 "HEAD-BOY" and 3 "STILL SHAKING"

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1434389944
ISBN 13 
9781434389947
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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