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A funny, wry, brilliantly observed account of what it's like to live in Yorkshire, in particular in the village of Marsden. Armitage writes about family, football, amateur dramatics, the moors, the pub - and occasionally going over the top to Lancashire. "I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett: the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark" Lesley Glaister, The Times. "A joy. It celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory." Sue Townsend, Sunday Times.
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'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' - Sue Townsend, Sunday Times 'I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark... a fine balance of humour and poignancy' The Times 'Laugh-out-loud funny... has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye' Independent 'A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observamt' - Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement 'The salty prose of an original poetic voice' - Melvyn Bragg, Observer
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'I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark . . . a fine balance of humour and poignancy' The Times
All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It's about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in-between.
'Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye' Independent
'A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observant' Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement
'The salty prose of an original poetic voice' Melvyn Bragg, Observer, Books of the Year
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0140262385
- ISBN 13 9780140262384
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