Don Paterson: Toy Fights
Toy Fights
Buch
- A Boyhood
- Liveright Publishing Corporation, 08/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781324095194
- Bestellnummer: 11761418
- Umfang: 384 Seiten
- Gewicht: 304 g
- Maße: 211 x 140 mm
- Stärke: 23 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.8.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.Biografie
Don Paterson, geboren 1963, arbeitet als Herausgeber, Übersetzer und als Musiker und lehrt Literatur an der Universität von St. Andrews. Für seine Gedichte erhielt er alle wichtigen Preise in Großbritannien, darunter den "T. S. Eliot Preis (1997)" und den "Geoffrey Faber Memorial Preis. Don Paterson
Toy Fights
EUR 17,95*