Fragments - Spaid, Graham
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"Memoir that revels in glimmering snapshot impressions ... subtle and intriguing ... absurd comedy ... hilarious" Foreword Clarion Reviews These are real memories. This volume has two parts. The first, The big, bad teacher, describes school teaching and private tuition in inner-city London (plus some memories of my own schooldays). The second, Doing violence to the fruit, describes my life in Greece. There is pathos, humour, compassion, irony, resignation. In my photos, the streets are bare. These are the streets I walked on. When I look at them now, I fill them with the people I knew. Reading…mehr

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"Memoir that revels in glimmering snapshot impressions ... subtle and intriguing ... absurd comedy ... hilarious" Foreword Clarion Reviews These are real memories. This volume has two parts. The first, The big, bad teacher, describes school teaching and private tuition in inner-city London (plus some memories of my own schooldays). The second, Doing violence to the fruit, describes my life in Greece. There is pathos, humour, compassion, irony, resignation. In my photos, the streets are bare. These are the streets I walked on. When I look at them now, I fill them with the people I knew. Reading Fragments, you may do the same.... There are plenty of expats. See Dead Dave and some lively English girls, a kissing consul and a smoking monk. You'll meet my Greek neighbours, along with a pungent landlady. Join me and Bryan on the paths of Mt Athos, and even stay the night in a monastery or two. In London, you'll find Monica. Help her put her pen back together, then watch us deal with her prying family. Yawn along with the parrot in my boring old lesson, and keep up with Kirin as he stays a step ahead of the awful Mummy. There are more rebellious kids - and a few impressionable ones, like Varahna the piranha and the sideways heart. From the author Fragments, anecdotes, random or loosely ordered, like memory. However much you want to, you can't get the past back again. I've tried to do it here in lots of little ways.
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Spaid once slept in a cemetery in Greece (it seemed like the safest place to spend the night outside). He was forced off a bus in India by window-smashing rioters. He's been robbed, and mistaken for a thief, a priest, a concert pianist, Woody and Tony Blair. He was examined by a dentist called Dr Fang. The rest isn't silence... BBC Radio broadcast a separate, humorous story set in South India. Two longer works of fiction, tireless: and Sex on every Paige, also reflect his experiences in different countries and jobs. Spaid was born in Australia, moving to the UK to study at Oxford, where he did a degree in English. He has travelled in over thirty countries, working as a language tutor in Greece, Italy and Taiwan, as well as a teacher in India, Australia and the UK, where he now lives with his wife.