Toy Fights - A Boyhood

''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

Product details

• Authors: Don Paterson
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.01.2024
• EAN: 9780571240289
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24028-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Family Life / General, Memoirs, Autobiography: writers, Biography, Literature and Literary studies