In 2008, he received a Cholmondeley Award. His poetry collection, The Good Neighbour (2005), was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection). The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. He is a former Writer in Residence at Dundee University and now teaches at the University of St Andrews. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. It has never been read.John Burnside was born on 19 March 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland, and now lives in Fife. © BOOK - EXPERTS Condition: Comme neuf, Condition: This book is in an excellent condition. ACCEPTABLE – This is a book which has some damage or cracks to the cover, binding or pages due to incorrect storage and transport. Condition Guidelines NEW – New, unread book EXCELLENT – This is an unread book that was sitting on the shelve for some time so there is some visible shelwear on it VERY GOOD – This is an unread book which may have traces of use due to incorrect storage around it. The sequel to his haunting, celebrated account of a troubled childhood, Waking Up in Toytown is unsettling, touching, oddly romantic and unflinchingly honest.
But the suburbs are not quite as normal as he had imagined and, as he relapses into chaos, he encounters a homicidal office worker who is obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock and Petula Clark, an old lover, with whom he reprises a troubled, masochistic relationship and, finally, the seemingly flesh-and-blood embodiemnts of all his private phantoms. January 2011) Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm ISBN: 9780099507833 Description: In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. Format: Paperback 272 pages Language: English Publisher: Vintage (6. 5 STAR SERVICE Customer support Contact us Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by John Burnside Condition: This book is in an excellent condition.
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