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Item Details
Title:
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WAKING UP IN TOYTOWN
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By: |
John Burnside |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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ISBN 10: |
0099507838 |
ISBN 13: |
9780099507833 |
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Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 2011 |
Pages: |
272 |
Translated from: |
English |
Description: |
In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, the author resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. This title tells is an account of a troubled childhood. |
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In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. But the suburbs are not quite as normal as he had imagined and, as he relapses into chaos, he encounters a homicidal office worker who is obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock and Petula Clark, an old lover, with whom he reprises a troubled, masochistic relationship and, finally, the seemingly flesh-and-blood embodiemnts of all his private phantoms. The sequel to his haunting, celebrated account of a troubled childhood, Waking Up in Toytown is unsettling, touching, oddly romantic and unflinchingly honest. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage |
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