The Grass Arena Penguin 9780141189598 John Healys describes


The Grass Arena Penguin 9780141189598 John Healy's describes



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Категория: Иностранная литература, Книги на английском языке, Нехудожественная литература на английском языке, Мемуары. Биографии
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John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This Penguin Classics edition includes an afterword by Colin MacCabe. In his searing autobiography Healy describes his fifteen years living rough in London without state aid, when begging carried an automatic three-year prison sentence and vagrant alcoholics prowled the parks and streets in search of drink or prey. When not united in their common aim of acquiring alcohol, winos sometimes murdered one another over prostitutes or a bottle, or the begging of money. Few modern writers have managed to match Healy's power to refine from the brutal destructive condition of the chronic alcoholic a story so compelling it is beyond comparison. John Healy (b. 1943) was born into an impoverished, Irish immigrant family, in the slums of Kentish Town, North London. Out of school by 14, pressed into the army and intermittently in prison, Healy became an alcoholic early on in life. Despite these obstacles Healy achieved remarkable, indeed phenomenal expertise in both writing and chess, as outlined in the autobiographical The Grass Arena.

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Штрих-код: 9780141189598
ISBN: 9780141189598
Объем: 280
Ширина: 130 мм
Длина: 197 мм
Высота: 17 мм
Серия: Penguin Modern Classics
Автор: Healy John
Год: 2012
Вес: 215 г
Группа: Книги
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