Borstal Boy

Brendan Behan

Arrested in Liverpool with a suitcase full of explosives for the IRA, Brendan Behan was tried and sentenced to three years in reform school in 1939. He was sixteen years old. Had he been just one year older, he would have faced a prison sentence. The world Behan entered was brutal and coldly indifferent. Still, Behan found something more positive than hate in borstal: friendship, solidarity, and the world of theatre, accessed through the borstal's library. Extraordinarily vivid, fluent, and moving, his autobiograpical book is a superb and unforgettable piece of writing.

Hutchinson 1958

Translated into: Spanish

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