Tragic Life Stories / Buchkategorien
am 06.02.2008 von Transblawg
Chris Applegate shows several shelves of Tragic Life Stories in W. H. Smith in Chancery Lane.
The titles vary from the enigmatic - “Alone”, “Damaged” - to the downright exploitative - “Please Daddy, No”, “Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes”. Regardless of how suggestive they are, they are all deliberate so. Incidentally, while most are autobiographies, one person, Torey Hayden (third shelf), seems to do a remarkable trade, making a living telling a series of accounts about other people’s blighted childhoods.
I seem to have missed out on reading these - I couldnt manage Angelas Ashes, and that even predated Dave Pelzer. …
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