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The Lonely Planet Boy (Paperback)

by Barney Hoskyns (Author) "Kip Wilson came comparatively late to pop ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail (15 Jul 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852423870
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852423872
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,877,432 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Kip, a lonely provincial boy, comes to London to enlist as a hack reviewer for a pop magazine and falls in love with Mina, a torch-singing vamp. When Mina's career takes off, Kip finds himself caught up in the general excitement, yet there is a mental and spiritual price to pay.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Pass the revolver, 1 April 2002
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At one point in Barney Hoskyns' first novel, the main character - Kip Wilson - gets horribly drunk before reaching for his dad's revolver. I know exactly how he felt.
Like full-length films made by successful video directors (hello Julian Temple!), fictional novels written by rock journalists should come with a government health warning.
In some ways, Hoskyns (a former NME reporter) still seems to be writing record reviews. He manages to cram every rock 'n' roll cliche into the 160-odd pages of the Lonely Planet Boy, showing a laziness that makes you wonder why he bothered.
So the band that Wilson ends up idolising (the wonderfully named Sacred Monsters) inevitably practice their ``sten-gun guitar riffs'' in a ``cramped rehearsal room'' before going on the road with ``overweight bouncers'' and ``a veritable media circus.'' You get the idea.
The best thing about the novel are the titles of the songs played by what one critic calls the ``Scary Monsters,'' which include Death of Desire, Evening of Light and the Art of Darkness. Sadly, Dead Zone - another of the band's non-hits - is a better description of the book.
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