My Fault

Childish, Billy

ISBN 10: 1899598065 / ISBN 13: 9781899598069

Published by CodeX Books, Hove, East Sussex, 1996

About this Item

i-iii, 354pp, green and black photographic covers with title in green to black spine. Slight shelfwear, small marks to page edges. Signed by author at title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 068294

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Fault
• Publisher: CodeX Books, Hove, East Sussex
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899598065
• ISBN 13: 9781899598069
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s, Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse. Stumbling onward into adolescence he lays bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men, This striking first novel, or 'creative confession', is at turns hilarious and harrowing. Laced with lindes of unforgettable peotry it is that rare and wonderful thing - a book which had to be written.

Review

"A self-made intellectual of a particularly English stripe, Mr Childish has sworn loyalty to populist art at its rawest." (The New York Times)

"Britain's greatest cultural asset." (Guardian)

"Raw, unmediating, bruisingly shocking." (Daily Telegraph)

"Terse, gutsy and powerfully humane." (Time Out)