Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir
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PRODUCT DETAILS :
DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 192 g
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Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Health, Relationships & Personal development
Society & Social Sciences
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.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780099507833 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Burnside, John | |
| PUBLISHER : Vintage Publishing | PUBLICATION DATE : January 06, 2011 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Vintage |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 192 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Health, Relationships & Personal development
Society & Social Sciences