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A Great Fool: okay The Shrewd Idiot

Autor Pete (aka Danny O'Cinneide) Kennedy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2021
Pete Kennedy left his home in Brunlea in September 1969 to enter Teacher Training at St Luke's College Exeter. 'Luke's' had a number of young men from private public schools who like those from the grammar schools were usually the dropouts that hadn't got high enough grades at 'A' Level to get into a University. Teacher Training College offered 3 or 4 years delay in finding 'real' work. The men at predominantly male St Luke's mostly got on well together except when hunting females which was a popular pastime and dances were arranged (by PK for a year!) with nearby predominantly female colleges (so that both sexes could sate their needs "to the full.") A Great Fool tells the story of O'Dork as he moves like an eel (or heel) through 4 years at college. Starting out green behind the ears and a virgin he ends up a less green would be stud. Then he falls in love; first with a beautiful girl from Exeter then with his art, although Art says it came before the girl(s), it stuck around and he became deeply engrossed in it. Did the Art reward his efforts? Read the book (and look at the pictures) to find out. Then the young Kennedy meets an older self who infiltrates his book with often unkind observations about his behaviour and this develops into quite a heated dialogue.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780950426747
ISBN-10: 0950426741
Pagini: 116
Ilustrații: colour illus
Dimensiuni: 210 x 295 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Apulhed Originals
Colecția Apulhed Originals

Recenzii

"With The Shrewd Idiot, Kennedy has found a method of collecting these outpourings together in a way that is not only visually appealing but leaves space for the reader to enter his world. And what a world it is. By turns colourful, drab, extraordinary, magical, banal, special and ordinary, but above all very real. Because the tales are so familiar it's hard at times not to feel part of the story, to recognize the locations, the people, the smells, the challenges, the disappointments and the excitement. Kennedy has given us a perfect snapshot of Britain in the late 60s/early 70s. Many books published about the cultural landscape of this period are so tinged with nostalgia and selective memory that they only mythologize the past. But this is a book that offers a gateway to that era by simply telling it like it was, even the bits we'd rather forget, or pretend happened differently." - Gary Malkin
"Having known Pete for 65 years it's been a pleasure to accompany him on his journey from drunken, sex mad student through teacher, author and artist. His latest offering evokes memories of growing up in the Sixties and Seventies by way of a journal of the changes he was experiencing in both life and art (his 'werk'). The story is told with wit, humour, brutal honesty and contains the occasional pearl of wisdom. Lavishly illustrated with Pete's drawings, paintings and photographs and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it." - Roy Gidley ('Rory' in the book, friend since infant school days at Tod Road School in 1955!)