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My Fault (Paperback)

by Billy Childish (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Virgin Books; New edition edition (9 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753510618
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753510612
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 386,353 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'A SEETHING, DYSLEXIC, BETTER LOOKING, BRITISH BUKOWSKI.' OBSERVER 'A cult-rock icon' John Peel 'Raw, unmediated, bruisingly shocking' Daily Telegraph 'A self-made intellectual of a particularly English stripe, Mr Childish has sworn loyalty to populist art at its rawest' New York Times 'Masterful stuff. He is the James Joyce of our time' Bevis Hillier"


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5.0 out of 5 stars An open & very honest book that will make you laugh & cry., 18 April 2002
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This review is from: My Fault (Paperback)
Billy's classic 1st autobiograhical novel exposes his troubled childhood/adolescence in a frank & totally honest, yet brutal way. From the sexual abuse by a family friend as a child through to the day he beat his father up, this book is a compelling read & will make you laugh & cry in places.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best English book written in the twentieth century., 29 Feb 2004
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My fault by Billy Childish is simply the best English noivel written in the twentieth century, the lyrical flow and honesty of the central character, narrator, is equal to both Allan Sillitoe's Saturday Night Sunday Morning and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. The book takes you through the childhood of a dyslexic, working class boy. The disfunction, disassociation and allienation of the character is perfectly caught, it comes across as a mixture between the childhood books of Jack Kerouac, his evocation of the Chatham of the seventies equal to Kerouac's Lowell and, inevitably with a novel about an adolescent boy, Catcher in The Rye. The other novel that it most resembled to me was Bukowski's childhood memoir/novel Ham on Rye. Childish is a better novelist than Bukowski and his political and moral force is harder. When a dopey lying book like The Strange Case of the Dog in the Night is being praised so widely a book like this that tells the truth about growing up needs to be read. If you haven't read this you don't know nothing about literature.
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