I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal
Stories of a Birmingham Boy
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Watkins Media Limited
Published:8th Sep '20
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I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal tells the story of its author, Charlie Hill, living in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s. In a series of vignettes, I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal recounts Hill's experiences with work, identity, sex, politics, drugs, homelessness and dissolution, set against the backdrop of Birmingham at the end of the twentieth century.
"Hill's many notable gifts as a writer include his narrative economy, his honesty and his pin point clarity. This is mordant, touching and — uniquely for a work of autobiography — entirely without vanity."
"Utterly rancid. I loved it."
"Charlie Hill is the chronicler Birmingham needs. Clear-eyed and sharply written, this a memoir — a set of poetic postcards, really — which offers a kaleidoscope of the past, a history of Charlie and of the city itself."
"Hilariously written with a breathtaking precision and economy."
ISBN: 9781912248988
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 367g
112 pages
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