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Odd Boy Out

Autor Gyles Brandreth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2021
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'I am what my childhood made me.'

But what is that exactly, Gyles?
Who are you? And why?

InOdd Boy OutGyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family.

It is a story about the ordinary things - family life, happiness, ambition, and love, but it is also about adventures - meeting princes and presidents, visiting Death Row in America, exploring the sex clubs of Copenhagen. It is a story of a boy blessed with wit and what he got up to and the people he met growing up in the most wonderful city in all the world in those extraordinary years after the Second World War.

ForOdd Boy Outis about more than Gyles and his exploits: it is also a kaleidoscopic portrait of Britain from the 1950s onwards, featuring a cast drawn from politics, the media, swinging London, stage and screen, from Laurence Olivier to Twiggy.

By turns hilarious and moving, and chock full of unforgettable stories,Odd Boy Outis the unexpected and candid autobiography of one of the country's most unlikely personalities. Yet at root it is a powerful and passionate exploration of childhood - how our heritage, our parents and our upbringing make us who we are.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241483725
ISBN-10: 0241483727
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Michael Joseph
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Gyles Daubeney Brandrethis an English theatre producer, actor, politician, journalist, author and TV presenter. Born in Germany, he moved to London at the age of three and, after his education at New College, Oxford, he began his career in television.

He went from presentingPuzzle Partyin the 1970s, to appearing inCountdown's Dictionary Corner for over 300 episodes. His career has since encompassed becoming an MP and appearing regularly on TV and radio, but writing is his true passion.

His past books include;Word Play,Oxford Dictionary of Humorous QuotationsandBreaking the Code: Westminster Diaries.

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Brilliantpen portraits of his father and myriad friends present a framework for Gyles's contemplation of hisextraordinary life.Light-hearted and dark events alike are described with his customary deceptively jaunty style, making themfunny, moving, and sometimes deeply shocking
Staggeringly brilliant, funny and touching, I loved it