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Pat Arrowsmith (1930–2023)

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Werken van Pat Arrowsmith

Somewhere Like This (1970) 28 exemplaren
Jericho (1965) 9 exemplaren
I Should Have Been a Hornby Train (1995) 4 exemplaren
To Asia in Peace: Story of a Non-violent Action Mission to Indo-China (1972) 1 exemplaar
Nine Lives: Poems, 1968-89 (1990) 1 exemplaar
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Somewhere Like This door Pat Arrowsmith
This is a book I once picked up in an Oxfam bookshop, thought it looked interesting and bought it without knowing any more about it. And I picked it up for reading at this point in time as I was beginning to feel I wanted an antidote for all the blokes in books I'd been reading about recently.

It's really sort of Bad Girls in the 1960s with women in prison: making friends and enemies, having affairs with each other, not getting on with the prison officers, tensions between different prison officers, based on, to an extent, the author's own stints in prison in the 1960s. I thought the end was a little hurried, as if the writer didn't quite know what to do next, but all in all, not bad.… (meer)
 
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5
Leden
43
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½ 3.5
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