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My Fault

Billy Childish author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:9th Jun '05

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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.

A self-made intellectual of a particularly English stripe, Mr Childish has sworn loyalty to populist art at its rawest. * The New York Times *
Britain's greatest cultural asset. * Guardian *
Raw, unmediating, bruisingly shocking. * Daily Telegraph *
Terse, gutsy and powerfully humane. * Time Out *

ISBN: 9780753510612

Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 20mm

Weight: 219g

320 pages