Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan

Borstal Boy

Brendan Behan

nonfiction biography reflective slow-paced

386 pages | first published 1958

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novel of an Irish terrorist, a teenage volunteer in the IRA. A fanatical believer, Behan was arrested with explosives at the age of 17 and spent three years locked in a British juvenile borstal. There he begins to wonder, who's really the enemy? B...
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funny 100%
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