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Toy Fights: A Boyhood
By (author) Don Paterson
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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 pretextâ€) 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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Publisher | W W Norton & Co Ltd
Published date | 20 Aug 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 384
Dimensions | 211 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 305g
ISBN | 978-1-3240-9519-4
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / literary
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