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What next you bastard : an autobiography

"Ken Hall spent much of his early life in hospital--at twelve he was moved from the children's ward to the terminal adult ward, where he was surrounded by old dying men. As a consequence he never learnt to read or write. The doctors insisted he was going to die but he survived. As he grew older he struggled in the face of calculated cruelty to lead a normal life in a society which equates illiteracy with idiocy. His attempts to conceal his reading probelms and his determination to make his own way despite continuing ill health make for sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful, but always compelling reading...Ken now 61, is currently developing 'Radio for all Australians', a national radio service for disadvantaged people. He still can't read or write..." -- p [4] of cover.

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