Truant

Clare, Horatio

ISBN 10: 0719569176 ISBN 13: 9780719569173

Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2008

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An assured and compelling first book A moving exploration of the slow triumph of adversity over optimism * Rose Tremain, The Sunday Telegraph * The classic Great Escape . . . strikingly told * Matthew Bell, TLS * It is the prose equivalent of a collection of poems by Ted Hughes or Wordsworth * Sunday Times * Beautifully written crammed with precious details It should be required reading * Guardian * 'A major talent' * Marie Clare * Enchanting ... magical ... so beautifully written that you almost hold your breath' * Daily Mail * 'Touching, funny and extremely well-written' * Telegraph * 'A joy ... heartening, raw, tender.' * John Carey, Sunday Times * 'A tender, eloquent book about love, the power of the land and the price to paid for living out ones dreams' * Sarah Dunant * Praise for Running for the Hills * : *

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At thirteen Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy's public school, a privileged member of an apparently blessed generation. A rebel - one of those who detested the system, who thought it not just fun but right to break its laws - he was expelled for smoking dope. He became one of the thousands who gleefully ignored the warnings and set out, in search of experience and intensity, to slalom on the slippery slope. He was a truant in its original sense: one who beggars himself through choice, not necessity. From university campuses to the rooftops of New York; from Brixton basements to fear and loathing in mid Devon, through psychosis, mania and depression, from sanity to madness and back again, this is a portrait drawn from a generation that turned to drugs. And it is a search for understanding: why do we do these things, and what do they do to us? What were we looking for and what did we find?

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• Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0719569176
• ISBN 13: 9780719569173
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320