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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) created a post in The Rise of the Working-Class Writer

Jun 21, 2019  
Where are all the Working Class Writers? This is an article by Kate Armitage.
https://writershq.co.uk/where-are-the-working-class-writers/
   
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) created a post in The Rise of the Working-Class Writer

Jun 20, 2019  
This is an article titled Where are all the Working Class Writers. Worth a read .
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/29/book-clinic-where-are-all-the-british-working-class-writers
   
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joeyboy (7 KP) rated A Kestrel for a Knave in Books

Dec 15, 2019  
A Kestrel for a Knave
A Kestrel for a Knave
Barry Hines | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Working class life depicted with wit and brutal honesty. Timeless classic. (0 more)
  
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) created a video about in The Rise of the Working-Class Writer

Jun 20, 2019  
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Common people

Kit de Waal discussing 'Common People' - a working class anthology

   
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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated The Trick to Time in Books

Jul 2, 2019  
The Trick to Time
The Trick to Time
Kit De Waal | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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Emotional and beautifully written
This is a really good working class novel about loss and hop
  
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ClareR (5551 KP) Jul 2, 2019

I absolutely loved this book!!!
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David Hare recommended Border Country in Books (curated)

 
Border Country
Border Country
Raymond Williams | 2005 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"The classic novel of a young man needing to leave the working class but wanting to take their values with him. By my university professor."

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Eileen Myles recommended Rose of No Man's Land in Books (curated)

 
Rose of No Man's Land
Rose of No Man's Land
Michelle Tea | 2007
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Michelle is our real Charles Dickens, and this small novel is working class perfection itself: in a mall, young, gay, punk, and in love for the first time."

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Van Jones recommended Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right in Books (curated)

 
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild | 2016 | History & Politics
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"Much has been said about the white working class in red state America since the election of Donald Trump, but nobody nails the details and nuances better than Hochschild."

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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Sink (2018) in Movies

Jul 20, 2020  
Sink (2018)
Sink (2018)
2018 | Biography, Drama, International
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Another quality British film no one watched
Working class life in Tory Britain is hard. Sunk shows a man sinking with string morals trying to make the best of it
  
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Kelly Reichardt recommended Grown Ups (2010) in Movies (curated)

 
Grown Ups (2010)
Grown Ups (2010)
2010 | Comedy
7.4 (14 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Mike Leigh's films and television films from the Thatcher era – Grown-Ups, Bleak Moments, The Kiss of Death, all centered around working class people trapped by a lack of means."

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