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This is Roald Dahl’s story of the first twenty years of his life. Funny, sad, nostalgic, and with lots of bite. In this book you will meet Dahl being sadistically caned by the later Archbishop of Canterbury and warming the toilet seat at Repton in icy weather for one of the “boazers” All described, of course, in Roald Dahl’s clear and delightful prose. Kan læses som et helt værk eller i uddrag. Workbook with glossary and working suggestions by Svend Aage Larsen.(114, 3 standard pages)
Level: C/B

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir (written even before Barack Obama had won his seat in the Senate), the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. The story begins in New York, where Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father — a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man — has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and his divided inheritance — first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read which illuminates not only Obama's own journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history and what makes us the people we are. (442 pages)
Level: Library/Depot/Interdisciplinary projects/SRP

Journalist Hunter S Thompson's classic journey into the  degenerate heart of the American Dream. He enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of mind-changing chemicals. His drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror that your students may well think are “classic”. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. (202 pages) Appendices (26 pages): About the Author; About the Book; Read On.
Level: A/B

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Maya Angelou's autobiography, in which she tells of her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of a white skin and suffers the trauma of rape by her mother's lover. (288 pages)
Level: B

A witty, profane, brutally realistic memoir of the Gulf War by a marine sniper who recounts his battles with fear and suicide, his brushes with death, and his search for identity as a soldier and an American. Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he — a testosterone-plagued teenager — becomes a scout/sniper in the marines and fights in the Gulf War. His account is in the finest tradition of soldiers' stories. He describes the sheer terror of being fired upon by Iraqi troops and the worrying, drinking, joking, lusting and just plain sitting around that his troop endured. When they do finally fight, the men aren't quite the super professional warriors that their commanders, the American public and the men themselves think they are. Swofford charts his journey from a wide-eyed adolescent to a hardened fighter who becomes consumed with doubt about his chosen role. (384 pages)
Level: B

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In this literary autobiography Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer — himself. This family story tells how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's failed attempts in the past. The starting point of the memoir is Kureishi's discovery of an abandoned manuscript that recounts his father's childhood in Bombay with the world turning upside down and India splitting in two along religious lines. A family that had lived in India for generations now had to accept a Pakistani identity. And so begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley — his days spent as a minor official in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. Along the way this book raises a range of issues, not least the contrast between the rigid religious and family structures and expectations of the India and Pakistan his parents knew with Kureishi's own increasingly liberal Britain — a contrast that has helped to shape his own outlook.
 (242 pages)
Level: A/B

'With a Fenian fiddle in one ear and an Orange drum in the other', singer Tommy Sands was reared in the foothills of the Mourne mountains, where he still lives. As a child, he was immersed in folk music — his father played the fiddle, his mother the accordion. The family's kitchen was a place where Protestant and Catholic farmers alike would gather for songs and storytelling at the end of a day's harvesting. Soon after learning the fiddle himself, Sands began writing his own songs. During the 1960s and 1970s he was the chief songwriter with The Sands Family, who played wherever they were welcome, from local wakes and weddings to New York's Carnegie Hall. His songs have been recorded by Joan Baez, Dolores Keane, Dick Gaughan and The Dubliners. The Songman is the story of Sands' remarkable journey. He tells of his family's traditional way of life, recalling his mother tying summer sheaves while his father worked the scythe. Here are the heady days of the civil-rights movement ('John Hume stood up and called for order; then Eamon McCann stood up and called for disorder'), when The Sands Family played for refugees in 1969 Belfast; encounters with Mary O'Hara and Pete Seeger; 'the boyish devilment and humour' of Ian Paisley on his radio show County Ceilf; and a 'defining moment' during the Good Friday Agreement talks, when he organized a moving impromptu performance with children and Lambeg drummers. Dip into this charming and informative book to find sections illustrating the history of our times — and a life in music. (288 pages)
Level: B/Library/depot