by William Woodruff · Time Warner Books Uk · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349115214
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«The Road to Nab End» is the autobiography of William Woodruff, published by Time Warner Books Uk in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Autobiography of William Woodruff's childhood in Blackburn (Lancashire) during the twenties and thirties. Son of a weaver, he grew up in a poor family affected by the crisis of the cotton industry. The author evokes that world between school and a delivery job, with characters like his grandmother Bridget, without self-pity.
It is the first volume of the Nab End series. The author was born in Blackburn in 1916, lived in Florida for over forty years, and died in 2008.
For readers of childhood memoirs and twentieth-century British social history.
William Woodruff was a professor of world history and author. His two autobiographical works, The Road to Nab End and its sequel Beyond Nab End, both became bestsellers in the United Kingdom. The memoirs, covering Woodruff's impoverished upbringing in an English weaving community during the Great Depression, contain significant amounts of social commentary about the conditions in which he lived.
