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The suburbs – long sneered at for being dreary and stultifying – have always been far livelier and more entertaining than they’re given credit for. In this witty and sharply observed account of what it was like to grow up in one in the 1950s and ’60s, David Randall gives the other side of suburbia: full of absurdities and happiness, scandals and follies, and inhabitants both sage and silly. Here, at last, is the truth about what life was really like behind the often-closed (but not always net) curtains of our semi-detacheds. This is that rare book: a most unmiserable memoir.
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DAVID RANDALL read history at Clare College, Cambridge, and worked for more than thirty years as a writer and senior executive for The Observer, The Independent and Independent on Sunday. He has written six books, one of which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and writes a monthly column for Italian news magazine Internazionale. He has lived in the suburbs nearly all of his life, where he and his wife Pam have had four sons, who have produced four grandchildren.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring, unadventurous and thoroughly unfashionable suburbs serve as their childhood stomping grounds. Much derided in literature and popular culture, acclaimed author David Randall turns his eagle eye and sharp wit on growing up in Suburbia - and his own childhood through the 1950s, '60s and '70s. From the predictable naming conventions to the unambitious juvenile crime, and from the social misfits to the snobs in the detached houses, Randall recounts it all in this funny and often poignant anecdote-filled book. Exploring such vital questions as why milkmen were the only daytime callers to be suspected of charming housewives, and just how to hide the New Car (more out of concern for the neighbours than anything to do with crime), no stone is left unturned (although each is placed neatly back onto its manicured lawn). Most important, were the suburbs so extraordinarily cliche as they are portrayed to be? Well, yes, probably. But so what? AUTHOR: David Randall is a Cambridge-educated history graduate who worked for more than 30 years as a writer and editor for The Observer and both Independent titles. He is the author of five titles, including 'The Universal Journalist' (5,212 Nielsen), which has been in print for more than 20 years, translated into 22 languages, and named by Press Gazette as one of the top ten books on journalism of all time. He lives in a suburb, in Surrey. 16 b/w illustrations A witty, eagle-eyed look at the ups and downs of growing up in the suburbia of the 1950s to 1970s Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780750991506
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