A Better Class of Person: An AutobiographyThe book recounts Osborne's childhood and youth, emphasising his warm relationship with his father, and his antagonistic relationship with his mother, which deepened to hatred after his father died when John was ten. |
Contents
No Pride in Real Gentry | 13 |
Uncalledfor Remarks | 16 |
I Dont Want to End Up in a DeadandAlive Hole | 38 |
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