Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist – the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

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Product ID:	9780141021249
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Gig
Subtitle:	The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist – the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
Authors:	Author: Simon Armitage
Page Count:	336
Subjects:	Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Yorkshire
Description:	Select Guide Rating Explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. This title includes stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls, and Yorkshire life and death. It is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been. ''Extremely funny'' Sunday Telegraph _____________________________ A poet is a rock star without the sex''n''drugs, or the rock''n''roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls (not all the author''s own), Yorkshire life and death, Gig is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been. _____________________________ ''One of our most entertaining authors'' Independent ''Very, very funny'' GQ ''Witty, terrific, stupendously funny'' Daily Telegraph
Imprint Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2009-05-28

Weight	242 g
Dimensions	196 × 130 × 27 mm