Art Sex MusicFaber & Faber, 4. apr. 2017 - 384 síður A SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, ROUGH TRADE, PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR |
From inside the book
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... close to her father and I loved being with him. He was a very kind, softly spoken man, always well dressed with a pocket watch tucked neatly into his waistcoat. I'd play for hours with the broken silver watch chains he kept on the ...
... close enough to his brother Mike for him to be our lodger and live in the third (box) bedroom. Uncle Mike was instrumental (no pun intended) in introducing me and Les to the guitar and harmonica. Whenever Mike played them I'd sit at his ...
... close the Perspex top and clip it shut. It was like a coffin to me. Despite being disciplined for my numerous misdemeanours, I don't think of myself as having been badly treated – not in comparison to some of my childhood friends, who ...
... close to nuclear war. The ensuing 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis had a profound effect on me. All I knew was that nuclear bombs could destroy the world. It was a frightening, life-changing moment to be told in my junior- school assembly that ...
... close is suffocating. All you want is for the sadness to end, for someone to make it all 'unhappen'. On returning home from the funeral I wrote in my diary to Granddad, 'I'll always remember the way you used to say my name. It had a ...