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Waking Up in Toytown. John Burnside
Taschenbuch von John Burnside
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
Amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation, John Burnside has just been awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous other awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Petrarca Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. His most recent books are The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century and Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction. He is a professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 262
Inhalt: 272 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099507833
ISBN-10: 0099507838
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Burnside, John
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 199 x 129 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: John Burnside
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2014
Gewicht: 0,189 kg
preigu-id: 107426309
Über den Autor
Amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation, John Burnside has just been awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous other awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Petrarca Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. His most recent books are The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century and Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction. He is a professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 262
Inhalt: 272 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099507833
ISBN-10: 0099507838
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Burnside, John
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 199 x 129 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: John Burnside
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2014
Gewicht: 0,189 kg
preigu-id: 107426309
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