Waking Up in Toytown

Informationen zum Autor John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. He died in 2024. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, the author resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. This title tells is an account of a troubled childhood.

Product details

• Authors: John Burnside, Burnside John
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780099507833
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950783-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Burnside Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Self-help & personal development, Coping with personal problems, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Urban communities, Coping with personal, social and health topics