Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man: A Memoir

by Eric Wright

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216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

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Eric Wright was born in London, England and immigrated to Canada in 1951. He is the award-winning author of seventeen crime novels, including his first novel, The Night the Gods Smiled, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel, the Crime Writer's Association's John Creasey Award, and the City of Toronto Book Award. His memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, about growing up poor in working-class London, was published in 1999.

Reviews

[John Bunge · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting memoir. Wright takes little episodes of his growing up in the UK, and patches them together to generate an engaging, chronological account of his life up to his eventual emigration to Canada, and his early adjustment to his new circumstances.

[Shadoh · Rating 4 out of 5]

growing up in england during ww2 and emigration to canada.