![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. It was published in 2006, and a sequel, Waking Up in Toytown followed in 2010. The sequel to his haunting, celebrated account of a troubled childhood, A Lie About My Father, John Burnside s startling new memoir follows his hopeless quest for pea 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'. Buy Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by Burnside, John (ISBN: 9780099507833) from Amazon's Book Store. A talented and highly distinguished poet and novelist, John Burnside is. The suburbs, though, are not quite as normal as he had imagined and, as 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 and further into unreality. ![]() With the aid of his last remaining friends he finds a regular job, goes to AA meetings and resolves to disappear into the banal to escape his addictive personality and find a Surbiton of the mind but he can t seem to outrun his own demons and, before long, he is back where he started. In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, a man runs away to the suburbs, to live what he hopes will be a normal life. ![]()
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