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Always Give Penny to Blind Man: A Memoir
 
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Always Give Penny to Blind Man: A Memoir (Paperback)

de Eric Wright (Author)
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A 2000 Torgi Award winner, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man is a charming and engaging memoir about growing up poor in an English working-class family during the Depression. Wright was born into a family of ten children. His father was a carter who drove horses and his mother worked as a tailoress. With no hot water, baths once a week and often short of food, life was hard but the family got by with resourcefulness and tenacity. Wright was able to win a scholarship and this enabled him to get an education which eventually helped him rise above his circumstances. After working in 1950s England, he decided to emigrate to Canada. The story culminates with his experiences as a young man working in the Canadian North. A superbly written memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man paints invaluable portraits of British working-class life and the quintessential Canadian immigrant experience, circa the 1950s. Originally published in hardcover in 1999.


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Eric Wright was born in London in 1929 and emigrated to Canada in 1951. He has written fifteen detective novels, notably the Charlie Salter series. His first novel won the John Creasy Award for the best first crime novel in England, and he has since won four Arthur Ellis awards for crime writing, as well as a City of Toronto Award. He is married with two daughters and makes his home in Toronto.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Wonderful Book!, Fév 8 2003
Par Grant Anderson "confuser_friendly" (portland, OR United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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When I was visiting Port Angeles Washington around March of 2000 I was sitting overlooking the Juan De Fuca which is a body of water about 20 miles wide which seperates the USA and Canada. You can barely make out Canada over the sea. Canadian radio would come over to Port Angeles and it was during this moment of relaxation that I first heard of Eric Wright. He gave an interview about his newly released book Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man. It's about his childhood in London in the 1930's and his struggles and eventual immigration to Canada. I'm not sure exactly why I found it so fascinating but the way he tells this story is wonderful. Perhaps because it's so entirely human. Like an Oliver Twist story this is a bigger than life story of someones ordinary life experience. If you come from the uk and now live in the USA, Canada or Australia, you would probably find that this book will lead you down a path of self discovery that you may have long forgotten over the years. It might shake you up. The characters come to life and touch you.
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