The book is a fictionalized autobiography of Ostrovsky's life, who had a difficult working-class childhood and became a Komsomol member in July 1919 and went to the front as a volunteer.

A twenty-four-year-old medical technician was talking about his working-class childhood.

Flashbacks to her working-class childhood in Nutley, N.J., as one of six children raised by a meek but withdrawn mother and a tyrannical, perfectionist father, explain the rest.

From working-class childhoods certainly there are memories of farm holidays, or travelling from Liverpool to Sheffield to see grandparents - but they are unusual.

The early scenes - shot in the grainy, faded tones that signify the pinched old days before everything was groovy - show George's working-class childhood in Weymouth, Mass.

Many people who know him say that Mr. Harriton could never quite outgrow the street-player persona he developed during a working-class childhood in Brooklyn.

Today's reading comes from Skulker Wheat, a collection of short stories by John Griffin which tell about a young boy's working-class childhood.

He was born in Moustier-sur-Sambre, the son of a miner, and lived a working-class childhood.

It was a classic rise from a working-class American childhood, and the only thing that set Clarke apart was his race.

He misleads others about his background as necessary, replacing his mediocre working-class childhood with a fabricated and more glamorous one of boarding schools and wealth.