Books > Biography
|
Buy Now
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy - Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader (Hardcover, Main)
Loot Price: R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
You Save: R85
(20%)
|
|
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy - Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader (Hardcover, Main)
(sign in to rate)
List price R425
Loot Price R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
You Save R85 (20%)
Expected to ship within 7 - 12 working days
|
Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a
house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with
other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's
National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read
it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers.
Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives
in Rochdale, but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a
'book cave' surrounded by 3,500 titles - at the last count. No One
Round Here Reads Tolstoy is his story of growing up a working-class
lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It's about schools (bad), music
(good) and the people (some mad, a few sane), and pre-eminently and
profoundly the books and authors (some bad, mostly good) that led
the way, and shaped his life. It's also about a family who just
didn't see the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who, in his
own way, taught Mark the power of stories. In recounting his own
life-long love affair with books, Mark also tells the story of how
writing and reading has changed over the last five decades,
starting with the wave of working-class writers in the 1950s and
60s, where he saw himself reflected in books for the first time.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.