Word monkey / Christopher Fowler.
By: Fowler, Christopher.
Publisher: London : Doubleday, 2023Description: 360 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780857529626 (hbk.) :; 0857529625 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Fowler, Christopher | Novelists, English -- Biography | Biography | Biography | Biography & non-fiction prose | Autobiography: literary | Memoirs | Language learning: writing skills | Personal & public healthDDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Christopher Fowler's first memoir, 'Paperboy', told the story of a bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals - a theme that was gradually crowded out by the exploits of his improbable family. 5 years later he published a second volume, 'Film Freak', about his attempts to forge a career in the British film industry in the 70s just as it was going down the pan. His accounts of dodgy producers, basement dives and dreadful B movies were elbowed to one side - this time by the exploits of his improbable friends. 'Word Monkey' is about writing and what being a writer has meant to him. Woven into the narrative is an altogether darker, more intensely personal thread: that of someone having to confront their own mortality.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Moss Bank Library Adult Non-Fiction | 823.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055400025347 | |||
| Adult book | Thatto Heath Library Adult Non-Fiction | 823.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38055400025348 |
Christopher Fowler's first memoir, 'Paperboy', told the story of a bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals - a theme that was gradually crowded out by the exploits of his improbable family. 5 years later he published a second volume, 'Film Freak', about his attempts to forge a career in the British film industry in the 70s just as it was going down the pan. His accounts of dodgy producers, basement dives and dreadful B movies were elbowed to one side - this time by the exploits of his improbable friends. 'Word Monkey' is about writing and what being a writer has meant to him. Woven into the narrative is an altogether darker, more intensely personal thread: that of someone having to confront their own mortality.