Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew
$33.32
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2006
Summary
Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew: A Glimpse into Lost Childhood
You’re twelve years old. Your mother’s a junkie and your father might as well be dead. You can’t read or write, and you don’t go to school. An average day means sitting round a bonfire with your mates smoking drugs, or stealing cars.
Welcome to Urban’s world.
Bernard Hare was on society’s margins, living on one of Leeds’ roughest estates and with a liking for drink and drugs. So he knew what life in the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340837351 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340837357 |
| Author: | Bernard Hare |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 257g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
‘Unexpectedly powerful.’
A dark and bitterly funny window on to a part of British life that most would rather sweep under the carpet … both inspiring and uplifting. - Daily Telegraph
A compelling piece of ethnography, but it is also a deeply personal memoir … Moving but never sanctimonious, it is another City of God, this time for Britain rather than Brazil. - ObserverA damnation of British society that is both violently shocking and laugh-out-loud funny, reading somewhere between a pre-teen Trainspotting and a northern-English equivalent of Larry Clark’s Kids … a memoir with attitude - Big IssueHare writes with laconic self-deprecation, black humour and a humane, ever present sense of railing against the system that failed Urban and his gang … exceptional - MetroAn extraordinary account of the parallel world of missing children who live under our noses in every inner city, but officially don’t exist. - Sunday TimesA cross between a grim fairytale and a reflective, brazen anecdote … a marvellous read. - Alexander Masters, Daily MailThis is writing from the edge. Bernie Hare is a truly original voice. He deserves to be big - really big! - Fergal KeaneDon’t miss Bernard Hare’s astonishing account of his relationship with Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew - Anne Fine, Books of the Year, Sunday HeraldAbout The Author
Bernard Hare
Bernard Hare was born in 1958 into a Leeds mining family. After gaining a BA in Applied Social Studies at Hatfield Polytechnic, he became a social worker, but after the miners’ strike of 1984 he dropped out of the system and has since worked variously as a mechanic, community worker and removal man. He now writes, plays chess, and works in community arts: he has edited Reflections, a collection of pieces by the creative writing class at East Leeds Family Learning Centre, and Flatlands, an anthology of writing and a CD of music by local people put together by the Flatlands Community Arts Group, which he co-founded.
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