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Memoirs of a Road-Sweeping Man
John Boyles
Memoirs of a Road-Sweeping Man
John Boyles
In the late 1940s and early 1950s there were not many ways for a labourer to get into Oxford. Unless you'd been to grammar school and passed your exams, you were stuck - like the author. But he dreamed as he swept the streets of Cowley, and he burned, and he yearned to write. Then a portal appeared, in the form of Ruskin College, a sort of halfway house, offering scholarships to late students like John Boyles. . .
152 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 31, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9781844011568 |
Publishers | New Generation Publishing |
Pages | 152 |
Dimensions | 127 × 203 × 9 mm · 173 g |
Language | English |
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