My Fault

Informationen zum Autor Billy Childish was born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent, and left school at sixteen. After working in Chatham Naval Dockyard as an apprentice stonemason, he went on to study painting, which proved to be unsatisfactory. Billy Childish was diagnosed dyslexic at the age of 28. Despite this, he has published more than thirty poetry collections and three novels. He has recorded over one hundred albums on a variety of independent record labels and exhibited paintings all over the world. Klappentext Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse. Stumbling onward into adolescence he lays bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol bullies and yes men This striking first novel or 'creative confession' is at turns hilarious and harrowing. Laced with lindes of unforgettable poetry it is that rare and wonderful thing - a book which had to be written. Zusammenfassung Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s, Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse.

Product details

• Authors: Billy Childish, Childish Billy
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.06.2005
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780753510612
• ISBN: 978-0-7535-1061-2
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 19.4 x 1.9 cm
• Subjects: England, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction, Sexual abuse and harassment, Child abuse, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century