{"product_id":"a-ragged-schooling-growing-up-in-the-classic-slum-9781901341010","title":"A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of  the best and most sensitive of English working-class autobiographies'\u003cbr\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' A marvelous piece of work ... this vivid portrait of a vanished community ... bubbles with comic vitality\u003cbr\u003eSpectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The autobiography of an exceptional man ... a memoir of quite extraordinary richness'\u003cbr\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tIn their small corner\u003cbr\u003e2.\tTo business!\u003cbr\u003e3.\tHome and hearth\u003cbr\u003e4.\tJanie\u003cbr\u003e5.\tA fearful joy\u003cbr\u003e6.\tThe food of love\u003cbr\u003e7.\tFire and food\u003cbr\u003e8.\tLow class and no class\u003cbr\u003e9.\tSins of the flesh\u003cbr\u003e10.\tChristians \u003cbr\u003e11.\tFears\u003cbr\u003e12.\tVentures\u003cbr\u003e13.\tTravelling men\u003cbr\u003e14.\tSuperstition\u003cbr\u003e15.\t‘Lovely war’\u003cbr\u003e16.\tSkool\u003cbr\u003e17.\tSong of apprentices\u003cbr\u003e18.\tClass of strugglers\u003cbr\u003e19.\tTo the egress\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043134734679,"sku":"9781901341010","price":12.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781901341010.jpg?v=1750957138","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-ragged-schooling-growing-up-in-the-classic-slum-9781901341010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}