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02986aam a2200409Ma 4500 001 9BE6D00CE96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 131119r20142013enkaf 001 0aeng d 020 $a 0552167010 020 $a 9780552167017 035 $a (OCoLC)868078230 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d AU@ $d VP@ $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a DA591.J65 $b A3 2013 082 04 $a 941.085092 $2 23 100 1 $a Johnson, Alan, $d 1950 May 17- $e author. 245 10 $a This boy / $c Alan Johnson. 264 1 $a London : $b Corgi Books, $c 2014. 300 $a 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Originally published: London : Bantam Press, 2013. 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain, but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother and then to no parents at all. This is essentially the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, domestic violence and loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; and his sister, Linda, who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age and who fought to keep the family together and out of care when she herself was still only a child. Played out against the background of a vanishing community living in condemned housing, the story moves from post-war austerity in pre-gentrified Notting Hill, through the race riots, school on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, to the rock-and-roll years, making a record in Denmark Street and becoming a husband and father whilst still in his teens. This Boy is one man's story, but it is also a story of England and the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details, Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance, of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries. 541 1 $c Gift; $a Donna Parsons $d 2018 $5 IaU 600 10 $a Johnson, Alan, $d 1950 May 17- $x Childhood and youth. 600 10 $a Johnson, Lilian. 600 10 $a Johnson, Linda. 600 17 $a Johnson, Alan, $d 1950 May 17- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01933839 650 0 $a Politicians $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 7 $a Politicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069915 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 700 1 $a Parsons, Donna S., $d 1966-2018, $e donor. $5 IaU 856 42 $u http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/giving/bookplate/?id=248 $z Donor Bookplate 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018011936.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BE6D00CE96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search