I Came Out Sideways
Subtitle: From Liverpool to Another Place
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Luton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781909183650; 9781909183667; 9781909183674
Subjects: Biography
Description: George Porter was born on the fault-line, that perilous place where he lived neither in material comfort nor in abject poverty. To one side of his family's cramped home in Waterloo, were the terrors of the Liverpool slums, where they would surely end up if his father continued to bet on losers; to the other were the well-to-do who lived in council houses and had manners and ways of life that were completely alien to 'little Georgie.' His boyhood heroes were Flash Gordon, Zorro and - best of ...