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Boy With No Shoes
William Horwood
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Description for Boy With No Shoes
Paperback. By the author of the bestselling Duncton Wood chronicles, William Horwood's THE BOY WITH NO SHOES is an imaginative memoir of exceptional power, destined to make literary history Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his own is a pair of shoes, a present from the only person he feels has ever loved him. When they are cruelly taken away, Jimmy spirals down into a state of loneliness and terrible loss from which there seems no recovery. This triumphant story of a boy's struggle with early trauma and his remarkable journey into adulthood is based on William Horwood's own remarkable childhood in south-east England after the Second ... Read more
Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his own is a pair of shoes, a present from the only person he feels has ever loved him. When they are cruelly taken away, Jimmy spirals down into a state of loneliness and terrible loss from which there seems no recovery. This triumphant story of a boy's struggle with early trauma and his remarkable journey into adulthood is based on William Horwood's own remarkable childhood in south-east England after the Second ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Review
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
309g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755313181
SKU
V9780755313181
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About William Horwood
William Horwood was born in Oxford in 1944, the illegitimate last child of five. He was a feature editor with the Daily Mail until 1978 when he began work on the first of his now classic Duncton Chronicles series which became instant international bestsellers.
Reviews for Boy With No Shoes
A powerfully moving memoir
Daily Telegraph
Beautifully written
Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller
Daily Telegraph
Beautifully written
Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller