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No Fixed Abode

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Author : Maeve McClenaghan
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2020-10-27

No Fixed Abode written by Maeve McClenaghan and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Social Science categories.

This book will finally give a face and a voice to those we so easily forget in our society. It will tell the highly personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real people struggling in a crumbling system. By telling their stories, we will come to know these people; to know their hopes and fears, their complexities and their contradictions. We will learn a little more about human relationships, in all their messiness. And we’ll learn how, with just a little too much misfortune, any of us could find ourselves homeless, even become one of the hundreds of people dying on Britain’s streets. As the number of rough sleepers skyrockets across the UK, No Fixed Abode by Maeve McClenaghan will also bring to light many of the ad-hoc projects attempting to address the problem. You will meet some of the courageous people who dedicate their lives to saving the forgotten of our society and see that the smallest act of kindness or affection can save a life. This is a timely and important book encompassing wider themes of inequality and austerity measures; through the prism of homelessness, it offers a true picture of Britain today – and shows how terrifyingly close to breaking point we really are.

No Fixed Address

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Author : Susin Nielsen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-10-04

No Fixed Address written by Susin Nielsen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Young Adult Fiction categories.

Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia. So far, pretty normal. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van. Astrid promises it’s only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs Felix not to breathe a word about it. So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn’t have enough to eat. When his friends Dylan and Winnie ask to visit, Felix always has an excuse. But Felix has a plan to turn his and Astrid’s lives around: he’s going to go on his favourite game show Who, What, Where, When and win the cash prize. All he needs is a little luck and a lot of brain power . . . Susin Nielsen deftly combines humour, heartbreak, and hope in this moving story about people who slip through the cracks in society, and about the power of friendship and community to make all the difference.

No Fixed Abode

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Author : Marc Augé
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

No Fixed Abode written by Marc Augé and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with French fiction categories.

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to sleep. Contrary to popular opinion, according to the website for the Coalition for the Homeless, forty-four percent of the homeless in first world countries actually have jobs. In No Fixed Abode, Marc Augé's pathbreaking ethnofiction--a fictional ethnography--a man named Henri narrates his strange existence in the margins of Paris. By day he walks the streets, lingers in conversation with the local shopkeepers, and sits writing in cafés, but at night he takes shelter in an abandoned house. From here, we see a progressive erosion of Henri's identity, a loss of bearings, and a slow degeneration of his ability to relate to others. But then he meets the artist Dominique, whose willingness to share her life with him raises questions about who he has become and about what a person needs in order to be a part of society. This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé's book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.

Of No Fixed Abode

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Author : Manchester Council for Voluntary Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977

Of No Fixed Abode written by Manchester Council for Voluntary Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.

No Fixed Abode

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Author : Charlie Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers LTD
Release Date : 2014-06-01

No Fixed Abode written by Charlie Carroll and has been published by Summersdale Publishers LTD this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Traveling on foot across the UK, with no money or reason to rush, Charlie finds the hidden side of the population—the homeless, the addicted, the disabled—who few outsiders ever get to knowIn the summer of 2011, Charlie found the school he taught at could not afford to renew his teaching contract. With no job and no money, but suddenly all the time in the world, he decided to travel from Cornwall to London in a peculiarly old-fashioned, quintessentially English, and remarkably cheap way—as a tramp, on foot, sleeping rough. The journey was filled with color, surprise, and danger, and a range of memorable encounters—from Stan, who once saved a boy from being raped but whose homelessness stemmed from a paralysing addiction, to Ian, the one-handed Rastafarian who lived in a tent. With a striking mix of travel and current affairs writing, No Fixed Abode sheds light on a side of the UK few ever see from within.

No Fixed Abode

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Author : Charlie Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-06-03

No Fixed Abode written by Charlie Carroll and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Charlie’s teaching contract came to an end and he found himself with no job and no money, but all the time in the world. He decided to travel from Cornwall to London in remarkably cheap way – as a tramp, on foot. With a mix of travel and current affairs writing, No Fixed Abode sheds light on a side of the UK few ever see from within.