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A Working-Class Family Ages Badly: 'Remarkable' The Observer (Language Acts and Worldmaking) - Hardcover

Roche, Juno

 
9780349702346: A Working-Class Family Ages Badly: 'Remarkable' The Observer (Language Acts and Worldmaking)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0349702349 ISBN 13: 9780349702346
Verlag: Dialogue Books, 2022

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A radically honest and uplifting memoir about defying death and learning to live.

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Juno Roche is a writer and campaigner whose work around class, gender, sexuality and trans lives has been described as 'provocative and innovative'. They were the recipient of the Blair Peach Award in for their work in education and their work has been supported by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Juno studied Fine Art and Philosophy at Brighton, and English Literature at Sussex, and has written for a wide range of publications including features for Bitch magazine, Dazed, Vice, Broadly, Cosmopolitan, the i, The Independent, i-D, the Tate magazine and Refinery29. They are the author of four books: Queer Sex, Trans Power, Gender Explorers and their memoir, A Working-Class Family Ages Badly.

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How does an untrained eye recognise the process of dying, when your mind is fixed firmly on living?

Juno Roche was born into a working-class family in London in the sixties, who dabbled in minor crime. For their father, violence and love lived together; for their mother, addiction was the only way to survive. School was a respite, but shortly after beginning their university course Juno was diagnosed with HIV, then a death sentence.

Juno is a survivor; they outlived their diagnosis, got a degree and became an artist. But however hard you try to take the kid out of the family, some scars go too deep; trying to run from AIDS and their childhood threw Juno into dark years of serious drug addiction, addiction often financed by sex work.

Running from home eventually took Juno across the sea to a tiny village in Spain, surrounded by mountains. Only once they found a quiet little house with an olive tree in the garden did Juno start to wonder if they had run too far, and whether they have really been searching for a family all along.

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Verlag
Dialogue Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349702349
ISBN 13 
9780349702346
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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