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All Growed Up: What Breadboy Did at University
Tony Macaulay
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Description for All Growed Up: What Breadboy Did at University
paperback. Following Tony Macaulay's successful career as a breadboy, he's going where few people from the upper Shankill have boldly gone before: to university. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; BM; WQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 286.
It's Belfast, 1982, and an eighteen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has a date with destiny. He's a real man now, so he is, and shaving twice a week. Following his successful career as a breadboy, he's going where few people from the upper Shankill have boldly gone before: to university. He trades the comforts of home for a life of Yellow Pack beans, student digs and late-night intellectual debates on sex, socialism and The Smiths, but this former paperboy doesn't forget his roots, so he doesn't, and he dreams of making a difference in the world ... Read more
It's Belfast, 1982, and an eighteen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has a date with destiny. He's a real man now, so he is, and shaving twice a week. Following his successful career as a breadboy, he's going where few people from the upper Shankill have boldly gone before: to university. He trades the comforts of home for a life of Yellow Pack beans, student digs and late-night intellectual debates on sex, socialism and The Smiths, but this former paperboy doesn't forget his roots, so he doesn't, and he dreams of making a difference in the world ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856409349
SKU
9780856409349
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Ref
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About Tony Macaulay
Tony Macaulay grew up in the 1970s at the top of the Shankill Road - an experience that has shaped his life and inspired his writing. Following successful spells as a paperboy and a breadboy, he has gone on to spend more than thirty years working for peace and reconciliation both in Northern Ireland and abroad. Tony is also a ... Read more
Reviews for All Growed Up: What Breadboy Did at University
"This is a lovely, charming story of self-discovery, self-awareness, and throwing up in your girlfriend's mum's biege bidet... Macaulay's voice sings clear and true..."
Dominic Kearney
Book of the Week, The Irish News
"It's a funny and touching memoir of what it was like to be a university student in Coleraine in the 1980s
and it's ... Read more
Dominic Kearney
Book of the Week, The Irish News
"It's a funny and touching memoir of what it was like to be a university student in Coleraine in the 1980s
and it's ... Read more