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A Start in Life

✍ Scribed by Alan Sillitoe


Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
666 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1504038568

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✦ Synopsis


An outrageously funny novel of adventure, sex, corruption, and crime from one of the greatest British authors of the twentieth century.
Michael Cullen is proud to be a bastard. His first memories are of the war, when his mother welcomed every soldier in Britain into her house, and young Michael hid beneath her bed to let the rocking of the springs lull him to sleep. By the time he's eighteen, he's got a pregnant girlfriend, and is staring down a long life of working-class respectability that simply makes him sick. So Michael says goodbye to his girlfriend and his home in Nottingham, and hits the road for London, where he will make his fortuneβ€”or die trying.

From the nightclubs of Soho to the depths of London's underworld, Michael can't help but get into trouble. But whether he's chauffeuring a vicious gangster or smuggling gold bullion across the channel, he never stops having a wonderful time. Indeed, Michael is something else entirely: a happy...


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