Items related to Growing Up in the Gorbals

Growing Up in the Gorbals - Hardcover

Glasser, Ralph

  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
    45 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780750520591: Growing Up in the Gorbals
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0750520590 ISBN 13: 9780750520591
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2003

Synopsis

"Growing Up in the Gorbals" describes Ralph Glasser's impoverished childhood and adolescence in Glasgow's slum tenements. "Gorbals Boy at Oxford" takes him, with a scholarship, to Oxford; into the army; and back to wartime Oxford. With "Gorbals Voices", "Siren Songs", Ralph Glasser concluded his brilliant autobiographical sequence: venturing in to the perplexing, wayward world of postwar London.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Ralph Glasser spent his childhood and adolescent in the Old Gorbals of Glasgow. After years of night study he won a scholarship to Oxford. A psychologist and economist, he was concerned for many years with development problems, mainly in the Third World, campaigning against the destruction of traditional communities.

Review

"'... a classic... he caught both the people and the place... and there are passages which stand comparison with Zola and Gorky. The Observer"

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Magna Large Print Books
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0750520590
ISBN 13 
9780750520591
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
400
Rating
  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
    45 ratings by Goodreads