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The Tearaway
Where I came from, real men didn't hug their kids aor tell them that they loved them. To do that was soft, southern, queer. Where I came from, it was just 'Man Up' and fists flying. Dean Williams was born into a tough and deprived area of Grimsby in 1972. His father was a violent, hard-drinking trawlerman who spent most of the year at sea and his shore time drinking and fighting. Obsessed with making young Dean 'Man Up', Bob beat him and locked him in a cupboard under the stairs for days on end. From the age of seven Dean was known locally as 'the spike thrower', for accidentally injurying a young tormentor with of of a bicycle. The aftermath was a wayward teenage life, expulsion from school and notoriety through football hooliganism. But there were also times when Dean's childhood
captured echoes of a simpler way of life, playing out until dusk, catching newts and nicking gobstoppers. His amazing story, although touched by darkness and shocking violence, is infused with the sharpest humour. Despite close brushes with gangsters, dead-end jobs and high-maintenance girlfriends, Dean turns his life around and comes up smiling.
captured echoes of a simpler way of life, playing out until dusk, catching newts and nicking gobstoppers. His amazing story, although touched by darkness and shocking violence, is infused with the sharpest humour. Despite close brushes with gangsters, dead-end jobs and high-maintenance girlfriends, Dean turns his life around and comes up smiling.
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