Truant
notes from the slippery slope
$32.70
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2008
Summary
Truant: A Generation Lost and Found
“I’m going to tell the truth,” I said suddenly, “about what we did and why, and what it did to us.”
At thirteen, Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy’s public school, a privileged member of an apparently blessed generation. A rebel who detested the system and thought it right to break its laws, he was expelled for smoking dope. He became one of the thousands who gleefully ignored the warnings and set out, in search of experience and intens…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719569173 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719569176 |
| Author: | Horatio Clare |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 21mm |
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Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare has worked on Front Row and Nightwaves, and produced Radio 3’s The Verb. Born in 1973, Clare has written for The Spectator, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph.
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