Leeds, Northern England, the 1970s_a time when the hammer-wielding Peter Sutcliffe held all the women of Yorkshire in fear of their lives. It was also the time when Mark Manning was growing up, an artistically natured young man adrift in abrutal society marked by violence, misogyny, and racism. Man_s World is by turns both funny and frightening, a story of growing up in the shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper and in one of the most aggressive, unforgiving cultures in England.