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Toy Fights - A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd (Main) Loot Price: R295
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Toy Fights - A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd (Main): Don Paterson

Toy Fights - A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd (Main)

Don Paterson

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'A classic of its kind.' William Boyd 'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' Scotsman 'A work of dazzling craft.' Times Literary Supplement 'A memoir in a million.' Sunday Times Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate. When he wasn't busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of Toy Fights, working with his country-and-western singer dad, obsessing over God, origami, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, playing guitar and descending into madness. While he didn't manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life - before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London - did, for better or worse, shape who he would become. 'A book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls.' Financial Times 'Paterson is arguably Scotland's finest writer at work today, his sense of the absurd is acutely honed, his wisdom hard-won.' The National 'Wonderful, aggressively wise and always - especially at its most serious - devastatingly funny.' Geoff Dyer

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Imprint: Faber and Faber
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2024
Authors: Don Paterson
Dimensions: 198 x 129mm (L x W)
Pages: 384
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24028-9
Categories: Books
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LSN: 0-571-24028-3
Barcode: 9780571240289

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