{"product_id":"toy-fights","title":"Toy Fights","description":"‘A classic of its kind.’ William Boyd\u003cbr\u003e‘Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.’ Scotsman\u003cbr\u003e‘A work of dazzling craft.’ Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e‘A memoir in a million.’ Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** Chosen as a Time Book of the Year ** \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he wasn’t busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of toy fights,\u003cbr\u003eworking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls.’ Financial Times \u003cbr\u003e‘Paterson is arguably Scotland’s finest writer at work today, his sense of the absurd is acutely honed, his wisdom hard-won.’ The National\u003cbr\u003e‘Wonderful, aggressively wise and always – especially at its most serious – devastatingly funny.’ Geoff Dyer","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57488480338255,"sku":"9780571240289","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780571240289_1-toy-fights.jpg?v=1776456801","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/toy-fights","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}