Beastie
O'Donnell, Jack
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Decimalization, dole queues and The Troubles in Northern Ireland brought home to a Clydebank tenement.Teenage swaggerer: Chaz Sweeney seizes the chance to get out and make a name for himself as a big man. Angela, aged four: Her mum can?t protect her. Her only friends Pizza Face (Chaz?s brother) and Evan are like older brothers, but they can?t protect her either...Chaz is too big and they?re too small. In fantasy and fairy tales they look for a way to escape the everyday horrors they face ...To give them hope of a normal life. Beastie lays bare the brutal reality of Poverty and Social and Economic deprivation of 1970s Scotland.
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Independently published; 9 Feb. 2024
Collation:
418 pages; 13.34 x 2.67 x 20.32 cm
ISBN:
9798879062885
Language:
English
BRN:
4148722
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