Borstal boy  -  Brendan Behan

KORTE INHOUD

'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.'

So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he was tried and sent to reform school. He was sixteen years old.

The world he entered was brutal and coldly indifferent. Conditions were primitive, and violence simmered just below the surface. Yet Brendan Behan fou...
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1990 Uitgever: ARROW (RAND) 372 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0099706504 ISBN-13: 9780099706502