One Day in My Life - Softcover

Sands, Bobby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0861047095 ISBN 13: 9780861047093

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1983

Synopsis

One Day in My Life is a human document of suffering, determination, anguish, courage and faith. It also provides frightening examples of mans inhumanity to man. Written with economy and a dry humour, it charts, almost minute by minute, a brave mans struggle to preserve his identity against cold, dirt and boredom. It is the record of a single day and conjures up vividly the enclosed hell of Long Kesh: the poor food, the harassment and the humiliating mirror searches. Bobby Sands and his comrades were often gripped by terror in the face of the iron system that held them and yet their courage never faltered.Written on toilet paper with a biro refill and hidden inside Bobby Sandss own body, this is a book about human bravery and endurance.

About this title

About the Author

Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old when he died, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike, on 5 May 1981. He had spent almost the last nine years of his short life in prison because of his Irish republican activities. By the time of his death he was world famous for having embarrassed the British establishment by being elected MP for Fermanagah and South Tyrone and having defiantly withstood political and moral pressure to abandon his hunger strike.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0861047095
• ISBN 13: 9780861047093
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118