John Healy: The Grass Arena: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics) [2008] paperback STAT author of The Roanoke Girls

author of The Roanoke Girls

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John Healy: The Grass Arena: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics) [2008] paperback STAT author of The Roanoke GirlsJohn Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This Penguin Classics edition includes an afterword by Colin MacCabe. In his searing autobiography Healy describes his fifteen years living rough in London without state aid, when begging carried an automatic three year prison sentence and vagrant alcoholics prowled