A Start in Life (Audio Cassette)

~ L. Sillitoe (Author)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Books On Tape (January 1970)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 5557022155
• ISBN-13: 978-5557022156
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bursting with life., April 28, 2000

By	Alexander Suraev (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Start in Life (Hardcover)

First time I took a hold of that book I was 13. "Start In Life" seemed to be a timely reading. I was a bookish teenager looking for role models and Mike Cullen turned to be a major find. The flamboyant clerk then strip-club bouncer then mafia boss chaffeur then crazy writer's secretary then gold smuggler then convict then landlord is a fascinating figure.

Mike Cullen flirts with danger, takes to bed as many ladies as he can manage, tries to make a quick pound in every way possible, falls in love, makes friends, engages in philosophical conversations and fistfights - he is bursting with life and certainly is not afraid of living.

Since then that jaunty working class hero was always on my mind, urging me not to be a sissy and add an extra spice to life. My bookish side was captured by Thornton Wilder's Theophil Nort but every time I was in for a trick or two it was Mike Cullen stirring in me.

Now I am 33 and these two decades were not as eventful as I hoped - but is that not the case with all of us?

Anyway, when the gloom and depression lurk nearby I open that book, read, smile and hope for a new start.