{"title":"Gabriel Krauze","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"who-they-was-signed-lined-dated","title":"Who They Was - signed, lined \u0026 dated","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2020 Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA literary rendering of the\u003cem\u003e Top Boy \u003c\/em\u003egeneration I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth  or with such brutal honesty  as only lived experience can tell  Graeme Armstrong, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Young Team\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAn astonishingly powerful book\u003c\/strong\u003e Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Act of Love\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep swimming towards the bottom. Some people touch the bottom with one foot, or even both, and then push themselves off it to get back up to the top, where you can breathe. Others get to the bottom and decide they want to stay there. I dont want to get to the bottom because Im already drowning.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a story of a London you wont find in any guidebooks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a story about what its like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war zones of big cities  and the girls trying to make it their own way.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a story of reputations made and lost, of violence and vengeance  and never counting the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a story of concrete towers and blank eyed windows, of endless nights in police stations and prison cells, of brotherhood and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is about the boredom, the rush, the despair, the fear and the hope.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is about whats left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264468697382,"sku":"who-they-wassld","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/dea32e8b-43a5-4b41-af33-eb798140dbc4.jpg?v=1701099916"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/gabriel-krauze.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}