Young Winstone
By: Ray Winstone and Ben Thompson
Contributors: Thompson, Ben, 1973-
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781782112426
Subjects: Actors; Biography; Social conditions
Description: Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, 'Young Winstone' offers a fascinating social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch --