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Lemn Sissay Collection 2 Books Set (My Name Is Why [Hardcover], Gold from the Stone)

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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:

Lemn Sissay Collection 2 Books Set:

My Name Is Why [Hardcover]:
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth.This is Lemn's story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph.

Gold from the Stone:
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries.

Format: paperback

Publisher: Canongate Books

Release: January 01, 2019

ISBN: 9123933798

ISBN 13: 9789123933792

Lemn Sissay Collection 2 Books Set (My Name Is Why [Hardcover], Gold from the Stone)

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:

Lemn Sissay Collection 2 Books Set:

My Name Is Why [Hardcover]:
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth.This is Lemn's story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph.

Gold from the Stone:
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries.

Format: paperback

Publisher: Canongate Books

Release: January 01, 2019

ISBN: 9123933798

ISBN 13: 9789123933792

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