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David Randall

Suburbia

A Far from Ordinary Place

David Randall

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English
The History Press Ltd
01 November 2019
Memoirs; Social & cultural history; Nostalgia: general
You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring, unadventurous and thoroughly unfashionable suburbs serve as their childhood stomping grounds. Much derided in literature and popular culture, acclaimed author David Randall turns his eagle eye and sharp wit on growing up in Suburbia - and his own childhood through the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

From the predictable naming conventions to the unambitious juvenile crime, and from the social misfits to the snobs in the detached houses, Randall recounts it all in this funny and often poignant anecdote-filled book. Exploring such vital questions as why milkmen were the only daytime callers to be suspected of charming housewives, and just how to hide the New Car (more out of concern for the neighbours than anything to do with crime), no stone is left unturned (although each is placed neatly back onto its manicured lawn). Most important, were the suburbs so extraordinarily cliché as they are portrayed to be? Well, yes, probably. But so what?

AUTHOR: David Randall is a Cambridge-educated history graduate who worked for more than 30 years as a writer and editor for The Observer and both Independent titles. He is the author of five titles, including 'The Universal Journalist' (5,212 Nielsen), which has been in print for more than 20 years, translated into 22 languages, and named by Press Gazette as one of the top ten books on journalism of all time. He lives in a suburb, in Surrey.

16 b/w illustrations
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Imprint:   The History Press Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9780750991506
ISBN 10:   075099150X
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

David Randall read history at Clare College, Cambridge, and worked for more than thirty years as a writer and senior executive for The Observer, The Independent and Independent on Sunday. He has written six books, one of which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and writes a monthly column for Italian news magazine Internazionale. He has lived in the suburbs nearly all of his life, where he and his wife Pam have had four sons, who have produced four grandchildren.

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