Young Winstone / Ray Winstone and Ben Thompson.
Publication details: Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd, 2014.Description: ix, 251 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781782112433
- Winstone, Ray, 1957- -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
- Winstone, Ray, 1957- -- Childhood and youth
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Actors -- England -- London -- Biography
- East End (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 791.430 WIN | Available | 058390 |
Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer? The answer lies in the East End of his youth. Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, 'Young Winstone' offers a fascinating social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch.