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Gypsy Boy

Mikey Walsh

Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 4371 Users | 532 Reviews

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Title	:	Gypsy Boy
Author	:	Mikey Walsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 278 pages
Published	:	2009 by Hodder & Stoughton
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Biography Memoir. LGBT

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Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back.

This is something Mikey knows only too well.

Growing up, he rarely went to school, and seldom mixed with non-Gypsies. The caravan and camp were his world.

But although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture his family’s legacy was bittersweet with a hidden history of grief and abuse.

Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision – to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere he could truly belong.

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Original Title:	Gypsy Boy
ISBN:	0340977965 (ISBN13: 9780340977965)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.86 From 4371 Users | 532 Reviews

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The kid in this book is a gypsy. His life revolves around organised violence, he has to learn bare-knuckle fighting and to witness it and to regularly experience it. Life is fighting, drinking, getting money (not always legitimately) and staying away from his father. Life gets worse, he's gay... He leaves. He's literate, his saving grace.Warwick said in the comments on his review of The Fringe Dwellers about attitudes towards the aborigines of Australia: "[I]t seems a bit like that to me too,

FULL REVIEW TO COME SOONThe only autobiography I've ever finished, Gypsy boy is a beautifully written heart wrenching book that will mess with your emotions. Enlightening, dark, funny, horrifying and sweet- it is a mixture of everything possible.Absolutely loved it!

I jumped at the opportunity to review "Mikey Walsh's" (the author uses a pseudonym) book as I am researching the Romany culture for a work of my own. There are few memoirs about the Romany Gypsies, and this is a first-hand look at their life in modern times.Mikey starts his tale with his wedding day, looking back on his life up until that moment. He recounts his father's bullying ways as he wants to make his son into a great bare-knuckle boxer like so many of the other men in the family. He



I don't know what kind of crack gadje are smoking when they say this book breaks stereotypes, but it must be a pretty powerful kind because this book does nothing more than take stereotypes and pound them repeatedly into the reader's head. It uses words like "all, most, never, always" over and over, and wants the reader to know that Rroma (and not just his stupid should-be blakbolime family) steal, scam, physically abuse, oppress and more. And then has the audacity to bash the Irish Travelers

Ive long been fascinated with the Roma (or Gypsies, as Walsh more commonly refers to them), and was extremely excited to read this book --the only other Roma book Ive read is Isabel Fonsecas Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies and Their Journey, which focused largely on the Roma in Eastern Europe. Walsh, by contrast, grew up in England and, unlike the grinding poverty throughout Fonsecas book, Wash insists that Gypsies are not generally poor. Reading this book, though, I thought of it less and less

The book is well written, but in my opinion the plot is, if I may disagree with Stephen Fry, far from a moving, terrifying, funny and brilliant .Instead, its kind of boring as too many irrelevant caracthers are mentioned, which are hard to link or associate with as long as you keep on reading... the main caracther Mickey is described as a fighter, everything arround with is messy and he tries to move on and survive.Not worth reading