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Bang to Rights

Bang to Rights

by Frank Norman

Publisher Secker & Warburg

Genre: Non-Fiction

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    A fine first edition, in a good unclipped dust jacket with chipping to spine and corners, and some browning to white areas.

About the book

Frank Norman's debut work, a memoir of his time in prison. With a foreword by Raymond Chandler.

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About the Author

Frank Norman

Frank Norman was a British novelist and playwright.


His reputation rests on his first memoir Bang to Rights (1958) and his musical play Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, but much of the remainder of his work remains fresh and readable. Norman's early success was based in part on the frankness of his memoirs and in part on the style of his writing, which contained both renditions of cockney speakers and his own poor spelling.


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