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Toy Fights: A Boyhood

Toy Fights: A Boyhood

Paterson, Don
Paterson, Don

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ISBN13: 9798212719278
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: Jul 11 2023
Language: English
For fans of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s.

Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of an infinite sensitivity to the world (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and ... origami), Paterson nevertheless made clear early on his immense gift for observation. In Toy Fights, he vividly re-creates the customs of the Scottish working class, from the titular childhood game (basically twenty minutes of extreme violence without pretext) to the virtues of the sugary sweet known as tablet. When American pop culture arrived, Paterson fell hard for the so-called outlaw sound; by his teens, he was traveling with his father, a Stetson-wearing country musician, and becoming guitar-mad himself. A memoir of family, music, and highly inventive profanity, Toy Fights is an unforgettable account of the years we all spend in rehearsal for real life.

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