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No one round here reads Tolstoy : memoirs of a working-class reader / Mark Hodkinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodkinson, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- England, Northern--Social conditions--20th century.
- England, Northern.
- England.
- Northern England.
- Hodkinson, Mark--Childhood and youth.
- Hodkinson, Mark.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Canongate, [2022]
- Summary:
- Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth--wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers. Fast forward to today, and Mark still lives in Rochdale snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' surrounded by 3,500 titles--at the last count. He is an author, journalist and publisher. So this is his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It's about schools (bad), music (good) and the people (some mad, a few sane), and pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors (some bad, mostly good) that led the way, shaped a life. If only coincidentally, it relates how writing and reading has changed, as the Manor House novel gave way to the kitchen sink drama and working-class writers found the spotlight (if only briefly). Mark also writes movingly about his troubled grandad who, much the same as books, taught him to wander, and wonder -- Source other than Library of Congress.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Part One: How Did I Get Here?
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Part Two: Where Am I Going?
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781786899989
- 1786899981
- OCLC:
- 1286427118
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