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My Name Is Why By Lemn Sissay Book | Lemn Sissay NEW 9781786892362
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- Original Language
- English
- Book Series
- My Name Is Why By Lemn Sissay 9781786892362
- ISBN
- 9781786892362
- Book Title
- My Name Is Why
- Publisher
- Canongate Books LTD
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Memorials, Books
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 154g
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how. At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is a story of neglect and determination. Misfortune and hope. Cruelty and triumph. Sissay reflects on a childhood in care, self-expression and Britishness, and in doing so explores the institutional care system, race, family and the meaning of home. Written with all the lyricism and power you would expect from one of the nation's best-loved poets, this moving, frank and timely memoir is the result of a life spent asking questions, and a celebration of the redemptive power of creativity.
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Publisher
Canongate Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781786892362
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7046548469
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Name Is Why
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Books
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
154g
Additional Product Features
Topic Area
Economic Sociology
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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- 18 Aug, 2021Most favourable review
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Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: webuybooks
- 15 Apr, 2023
Amazing life story
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- 05 Aug, 2020
My name is Why
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- 07 Dec, 2024
My name is why...... really makes a change. I have given up reading crime novels, as I see them to be a negative influence in general.
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- 10 Jun, 2022
Amazing autobiography.
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