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Semi-Detached

by Griff Rhys Jones · 2006 · 324 pages

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Semi-Detachedis Griff Rhys Jones's own account of his ordinary suburban childhood; of adolescent scraps and scrapes; of coming of age in the 1960s and 70s; of family and university life; and of times lost or at least fuzzy around the edges.

It's a powerful, moving and above all touchingly funny memoir of how one of the nation's most popular comics and personalities got from there to here...

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Subject
biography
Setting
british
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 324 pages

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