Paperboy - Hardcover

Fowler, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750532076 ISBN 13: 9780750532075

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2010

Synopsis

Superman, Dracula, The Avengers, Treasure Island...when you’re ten years old, you can fall in love with any story so long as it’s a good one. But what if you’re growing up in a house without books? Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a story. But it’s 1960, and after fifteen years of post-war belt-tightening, his family is not ready to indulge a child cursed with too much imagination... Caught between an ever-sensible but exhausted mother and a DIY-obsessed father fighting his own demons, Christopher takes refuge in words. His parents try to understand their son’s peculiar obsessions, but fast lose patience with him - and each other. The war of nerves escalates to include every member of the Fowler family, and something has to give, but does it mean that a boy must always give up his dreams for the tough lessons of real life? Beautifully written, this rich and astute evocation of a time and a place recalls a childhood at once eccentric and endearingly ordinary.

About this title

Review

'Entrancing, funny, deeply moving and wonderfully written. Please read it'
-- ELIZABETH BUCHAN

'One of the funniest books I've read in a long time. In fact, these pages are packed with so many good lines, even the footnotes are a joy to read...Witty and wise, moving but never mawkish, this is the kind of memoir that puts most others to shame.'
-- Time Out, June 2009

'The book is fabulous, and I hope it sells forever' -- JOANNE HARRIS

Book Description

Gloriously funny and moving memoir of a suburban childhood in the early 60s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750532076
• ISBN 13: 9780750532075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384