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Waking Up in Toytown

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Waking Up in ToytownCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781529962871 Format: B format paperback Year: 2025 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: With wit, precision and grace, John Burnside's second memoir traces the aftershocks of a troubled childhood into troubled adulthood with a new introduction by Sarah Perry With wit, precision and grace, John Burnside's second memoir traces the aftershocks of a troubled childhood into troubled adulthood. With a new introduction by Sarah

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781529962871
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


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With wit, precision and grace, John Burnside's second memoir traces the aftershocks of a troubled childhood into troubled adulthood - with a new introduction by Sarah Perry



With wit, precision and grace, John Burnside's second memoir traces the aftershocks of a troubled childhood into troubled adulthood.



With a new introduction by Sarah Perry




'Among the best writers of his generation, fully voiced and perfectly pitched' Andrew O'Hagan





In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind.' But the suburbs are not quite as normal as he had imagined, and he relapses into chaos.




He encounters a homicidal office worker who is obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock and Petula Clark, an old lover, with whom he reprises a troubled, masochistic relationship and, finally, the seemingly flesh-and-blood embodiments of all his private phantoms, as he drifts further into unreality.




The second of John Burnside's extraordinary trilogy of memoirs, Waking Up in Toytown is the story of one man's search for sanity - but also the story of love that outgrows its restraints and a scorching enquiry into the soul, from one of our greatest contemporary writers.



'Burnside's memoir deserves to become a classic. Has anyone written about the direct experience of mental illness with such scrupulous observation and wit?' Daily Express
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