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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Map of Ray Winstone's London -- 1. Hackney Hospital -- 2. Caistor Park Road, Plaistow -- 3. Portway School -- 4. The Odeon, East Ham -- 5. The New Lansdowne Club -- 6. The Cage, Spitalfields Market -- 7. Ronan Point -- 8. Raymond's Tailors, Lower Clapton -- 9. The Repton Boxing Club -- 10. Chrisp Street Market, Poplar -- 11. The Boleyn Ground, Upton Park -- 12. Victoria Park Lido -- 13. The Theatre Royal, Stratford East -- 14. York Hall -- 15. The Prospect of Whitby, Wapping -- 16. Nashville's, Whitechapel -- 17. Benjy's Nightclub, Mile End -- 18. The 277 Bus up Burdett Road -- 19. Gatsby House -- 20. The Alexandra Tavern -- 21. The Tate & amp -- Lyle Sugar Factory, Silvertown -- 22. Hackney Marshes -- 23. The Corner of Well Street and Mare Street -- 24. Trossachs, Barking Road -- 25. The Apollo Steakhouse, Stratford -- Picture Credits |
| Summary |
From the boxing clubs of 1970s East London to the celebrity haunts of Hollywood the acclaimed actor offers a memoir with "gripping insight into his youth" (Telegraph, UK). Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity of his tough-guy screen characters'a violent offender in Scum, a wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, and a retired robber in Sexy Beast to name just a few'has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising, unforgettable performances square with his off-duty reputation as a salt-of-the-earth, golden-hearted nice guy' The answer, as Winstone himself will tell you, 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 insight into the social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch. "As much about London as his nascent career. Ray made such an impression in Scum that I still remember his prison number, and he is just as vivid on his formative years."'Independent on Sunday, Best Books on Film in 2014 |
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Winstone, Ray, 1957- -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
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Winstone, Ray, 1957- -- Childhood and youth
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Winstone, Ray, 1957- fast |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Homes
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Manners and customs
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Social conditions
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East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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East End (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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England -- London
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England -- London -- East End
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Thompson, Ben, author
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| ISBN |
9781782112440 |
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1782112448 |
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