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Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
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A really good introduction to all those Uk writers who can't rise through the rank middle class literary …more

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Barry
This is a stunning anthology of memoir, literary non-fiction, poetry and essays by working class writers.

Containing contributions from thirty three different working class authors this is a necessary contribution to anyone's library and is a small drop in an ocean of middle class writing in the UK. It's something that has bothered me for a while, particularly when I was reading non-genre fiction that overwhelmingly the characters and settings were predominantly middle class, and when working cla
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