Smoke In The Lanes : Happiness and Hardship on the Road with the Gypsies in the 1950s
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0349000034
ISBN-13
9780349000039
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint
Abacus
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2011
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
284 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.90 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Autobiography: generalBritish & Irish historySocial & cultural historySocial groups
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Smoke in the Lanes is the fascinating firsthand account of a bygone age of the Romani traveller way of life in 1950s England.
In the 1950s the Romani people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often poverty-stricken but protective of their freedom - on the fringes of a society that was soon to close around them. Dominic Reeve describes his life among the Gypsies: the feuds and fairs, the joyful muddy squalor of an outdoor existence. He evokes an unforgettable cast of fireside characters - bold children, fierce matriarchs and dandyish villains in snap-brimmed hats - and tells of sharp deals done and rings run round country policemen, of love affairs, dances and open-air feasting. Smoke in the Lanes is the vivid, memorable record of a disappeared world.
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