Borstal Boy
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Borstal Boy
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Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners. From a technical standpoint, the novel is chiefly notable for the art with which it captures the lively dialogue of the Borstal inmates, with a variety of the many subtly distinctive accents of Britain and Irel
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Memoir/bildungsroman by Brendan Behan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borstal_Boy
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2023-11-28T11:54:50Z
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