Young Winstone
By: Ray Winstone and Ben Thompson
Contributors: Thompson, Ben, 1973- author
Edition: Paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781782112457
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Social life and customs; Homes; Homes and haunts; Biografier; Actors; Skådespelare; Motion picture actors and actresses; Social conditions; Manners and customs; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer? The answer lies in the East End of his youth. 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.