A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Jeff Pearce was born in the slums of Liverpool in 1953, and from the moment he could walk he sold second hand clothes on a market stall with his mother. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, unable to read or write, he embarked on an amazing journey that would see him make and lose millions in the 'rag trade' before eventually winning the highest accolade the fashion business had to offer. He is retired and lives on a small farm in Cheshire with his wife Gina and two Argentinean polo ponies, Susie the dog and Daisy the cat. Jeff now spends most of his time committing his memoirs to paper. Klappentext Jeff Pearce was born in the slums of Liverpool in 1953, and from the moment he could walk he sold second hand clothes on a market stall with his mother. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, unable to read or write, he embarked on an amazing journey that would see him make and lose millions in the 'rag trade' before eventually winning the highest accolade the fashion business had to offer. He is retired and lives on a small farm in Cheshire with his wife Gina and two Argentinean polo ponies, Susie the dog and Daisy the cat. Jeff now spends most of his time committing his memoirs to paper. Zusammenfassung Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough and from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich, which he sold down the markets.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jeff Pearce, Pearce Jeff
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.01.2011
• EAN: 9780241951071
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95107-1
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sagas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, True stories, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Lancashire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Memoirs, Poverty & unemployment, Generational sagas, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Poverty and precarity