BARE - 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER

Informationen zum Autor LORNA TUCKER has secured her place as one of the most exciting documentary directors working today. Her first, Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist , was officially selected at the Sundance Film Festival 2018. That year, she was named one of the biggest breakout female filmmakers by Harper's Bazaar and Elle. Lorna has written articles for the Guardian and Vogue . Bare is her first book. Klappentext The first ever female homelessness memoir IF 'A MILLION LITTLE PIECES' WERE ENTIRELY TRUE AND WRITTEN BY A WOMANI, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most you can't even begin to imagine... "A chronicle of her remarkable journey" - GUARDIAN I have lived on London's wet, piss-soaked streets. I have lived with the warm, sweet embrace of heroin. I have lived in hostels with my newborn baby. I have lived so much that I barely made it out alive. I have lied, thieved and stripped. I have tricked you into giving me money. And you've wished I didn't exist. You've looked away; you've been disgusted. I could be your daughter, your lover... you- all of us are closer to the brink than we'd like to think. I didn't die though. I lived... And it's time to tell my story. Come to hell and back with me. THE FIRST-EVER BOOK ABOUT FEMALE HOMELESSNESS. Vorwort If A MILLION LITTLE PIECES were entirely true and written by a woman Zusammenfassung A sobering true story of female teenage homelessness in London - from Britain's most exciting filmmaker

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lorna Tucker Ltd, Lorna Tucker
• Editore: Conran Octopus Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9781914240737
• ISBN: 978-1-914240-73-7
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 218 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Addiction & therapy, Poverty & unemployment, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Addiction and therapy, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, Coping with / advice about addiction