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True story written by the author depicting his interactions with a group of children who have fallen through the cracks of a social system that doesn't work. The author takes great pains reveling the everyday lives of the children ans his special relationship with one in particular, Urban. Mr. Hare also revels his own failings in an unforgiving structure where once your down, rather than pull you up the government would rather keep you down and you are always employing methods just to exist. Tho
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What I really like about this book is that it is continuously changing between saddening descriptions and funny parts, between slang and wordsmithery, between unenducation and education or in short: the opposites. Mr. Hare really can juggle with words and the way Chop manages to spread some knowledge (history, geography, reading...) without much fuss is something I like and which normally comes just after he has done something I cring about.
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Very shocking report of children´s lives in Britain´s underclass, not only concerning their "adventures" but also the treatment of each other and the language. Something to think of!
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