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Exquisitely sharp, deeply humane & brutally hilarious, Toy Fights is a future classic from one of the greatest writers of his generation.'Devastatingly funny.' – Geoff Dyer'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic & scarily brilliant' – Scotsman'Laugh-out-loud funny' – Herald on SundayThis is a book about family, money & music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt & the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored.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, screwing up in the Boys' Brigade, obsessing...°°°Don Paterson's memoir Toy Fights: A Boyhood (Faber & Faber, £16.99) made me laugh out loud at least once every chapter. It's also intensely serious: about, class, Dundee council estate life, sex, drugs & jazz, & laced with finely distilled anger. After the years depicte
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Don Paterson
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, World Fiction
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