Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786822291
Publisert
2017-08-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Oberon Books Ltd
Vekt
66 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
56
Forfatter
Biographical note
Lemn Sissay Mbe is associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, ambassador for The Children's Reading Fund, trustee of Forward Arts Foundation and inaugural trustee of World Book Night and an honorary doctor of Letters.
Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at the age of 18.No longer the possession of the social services, he left the brutal suburbs of Lancashire for the bright lights of Manchester where he became a celebrated performance poet. Aged 21 Lemn left for Gambia in search of his mother and the truth about his father.
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Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. An autobiographical performance about Sissay's upbringing in a racist care system.
Something Dark is now a set text on Edexcel’s Contemporary Black British Literature: A Guide.
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An autobiographical performance about Sissays upbringing in a racist care system.
Something Dark is a set text on Pearson Edexcel’s Contemporary Black British Literature: A Guide for their English Literature specification.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786822291
Publisert
2017-08-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Oberon Books Ltd
Vekt
66 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
56
Forfatter