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When Stephen Foster departed for London from his hometown of Stoke, he was wearing an army surplus jacket accessorised with a CND badge, and he took with him a distinct set of attitude problems. It was the late Seventies; the south-east was on the brink of a social and economic boom - think Thatcher, Yuppies, Wham! and Essex Man. These were awful times for working-class heroes like Stephen, those who believed in Arthur Scargill, who listened to Dylan and Joy Division, and who reviled the Porsche 911. The south was a travesty. He would never fit in - he couldn't. Three decades later he had turned into the kind of poseur who had a recipe book with instructions for making Eton mess and Smoked aubergine puree lying on his ornamental butcher's block next to his six-burner range in his nice middle-class kitchen. How had this disastrous state of affairs come about? From Working Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace is a riveting cultural memoir, funny and touching in equal measure. It will transport you back to one of the great con eras - when we were encouraged to put gel in our hair, wear blazers with rolled-up sleeves and turn our back on our roots...

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Pełny tytuł: From Working Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace
• Autor: Stephen Foster
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 224
• EAN: 9781906021214
• ISBN: 190602121X
• ID: 04322643
• Wydawca: Short Books Ltd
• Waga: 241 g
• Wymiary: 215 × 136 × 16 mm
• Data wydania: 20. September 2002

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