{"product_id":"toy-fights-don-paterson-9780571240289","title":"Toy Fights","description":"‘A classic of its kind.’ William Boyd\n‘Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.’ Scotsman\n‘A work of dazzling craft.’ Times Literary Supplement\n‘A memoir in a million.’ Sunday Times\n** Chosen as a Time Book of the Year ** \nDon Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate.\nWhen he wasn’t busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of toy fights,\nworking with his country-and-western singer dad, obsessing over God, origami, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, playing guitar and descending into madness.\nWhile he didn’t manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life – before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London – did, for better or worse, shape who he would become\n‘A book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls.’ Financial Times \n‘Paterson is arguably Scotland’s finest writer at work today, his sense of the absurd is acutely honed, his wisdom hard-won.’ The National\n‘Wonderful, aggressively wise and always – especially at its most serious – devastatingly funny.’ Geoff Dyer","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50137734086944,"sku":"9780571240289","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571240289.jpg?v=1768373618","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/toy-fights-don-paterson-9780571240289","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}