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Babycham Night Philip Norman

Babycham Night von Philip Norman

Babycham Night Philip Norman


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Zusammenfassung

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits.

Babycham Night Zusammenfassung

Babycham Night: A Boyhood At The End Of The Pier Philip Norman

A touching childhood memoir by acclaimed biographer and novelist Philip Norman.Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don.The year is 1953. The coronation creates a mood of national euphoria, reflected in the bubbly new drink called Babycham. But while Britain celebrates, ten-year-old Philip watches disaster approach in his father's obsession with Joan, the Bronze Medal roller skating champion. Finally, he concocts a stratagem to win his parents' attention which explodes spectacularly in his face...Funny and poignant, Babycham Night evokes the joys and heartache of childhood, and takes the reader on a nostalgic trip back to a lost era, when the Isle of Wight was an exotic holiday location and Babycham the height of sophistication.

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A richly evocative memoir of a childhood spent on the Isle of Wight in the 1950s. Various vanished worlds are here conjured back to life, not least the seaside sophistication of Britain's once exotic offshore resort. Actually, it is particularly fascinating to learn how much of the Isle of Wight has remained unchanged, how much of the island's key tourist attractions are lodged in a post-war time warp. Ryde Pier, on the evidence of this memoir, has hardly been transformed in the course of half a century. But the genteel middle-class world of Babycham ('the first drink a woman could order in a bar without feeling like a tart or a crone') has definitely had its day. You expect a book by Norman to be well written, but the humour in Babycham Night is a revelation.

Über Philip Norman

Philip Norman is widely acclaimed as a chronicler of popular music and culture, and his definitive biographies of John Lennon, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Buddy Holly have been translated into numerous languages. He is also an award-winning writer of fiction and has written a memoir, Babycham Night.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

    • Section - i: Prologue
  • Unit - i: Part One: LEARNING THE MOHAWK
  • Unit - ii: Part Two: `HAPPY CELEBRATION, DING-DONG-DING'
  • Unit - iii: Part Three: THE REST ROOM
    • Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR002710549
9780333900970
0333900979
Babycham Night: A Boyhood At The End Of The Pier Philip Norman
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Pan Macmillan
20030502
352
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