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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 embodiments 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 embodiments 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.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
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Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 272 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780099507833 |
ISBN-10: | 0099507838 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Burnside, John |
Hersteller: | Random House UK |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 199 x 129 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | John Burnside |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.10.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,189 kg |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
---|---|
Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 272 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780099507833 |
ISBN-10: | 0099507838 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Burnside, John |
Hersteller: | Random House UK |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 199 x 129 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | John Burnside |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 10.10.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,189 kg |