Waking Up in Toytown - A Memoir (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2011
Authors:	John Burnside
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-950783-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-09-950783-8
Barcode:	9780099507833

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