Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope
by Horatio Clare
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1407409751
- ISBN 13
- 9781407409757
- Seller
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Wamuran, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
At thirteen Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy's public school, a privileged member of an apparently blessed generation. A rebel - one of those who detested the system, who thought it not just fun but right to break its laws - he was expelled for smoking dope. He became one of the thousands who gleefully ignored the warnings and set out, in search of experience and intensity, to slalom on the slippery slope. From university campuses to the rooftops of New York; from Brixton basements to fear and loathing in Mid Devon, through psychosis, mania and depression, from sanity to madness and back again, this is a portrait drawn from a generation that turned to drugs. And it is a search for understanding: why do we do these things, and what do they do to us? What were we looking for and what did we find?
At thirteen Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy's public school, a privileged member of an apparently blessed generation. A rebel - one of those who detested the system, who thought it not just fun but right to break its laws - he was expelled for smoking dope. He became one of the thousands who gleefully ignored the warnings and set out, in search of experience and intensity, to slalom on the slippery slope. From university campuses to the rooftops of New York; from Brixton basements to fear and loathing in Mid Devon, through psychosis, mania and depression, from sanity to madness and back again, this is a portrait drawn from a generation that turned to drugs. And it is a search for understanding: why do we do these things, and what do they do to us? What were we looking for and what did we find?
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- Seller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks492
- Title
- Truant
- Author
- Horatio Clare
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1407409751
- ISBN 13
- 9781407409757
- Publisher
- W F Howes Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Leicester
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- horatio clare, truant, notes from the slippery slope, memoir, large print, rebel, new york, brixton, psychosis, mania, depression, generation, drugs,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoir; True Story;
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