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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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EPUB |
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| Summary |
Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer? The answer lies in the East End of his youth. Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, Young Winstone offers a fascinating insight into the social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch. |
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Publisher metadata. |
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Winstone, Ray, 1957- -- Childhood and youth.
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Winstone, Ray, 1957- -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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East End (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Electronic books.
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Thompson, Ben, 1973-
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Freading.
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| ISBN |
9781782112440 (epub) |
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9781782112440 |
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