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Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho (Paperback)

by Clayton Littlewood (Author)
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  • Paperback: 350 pages
  • Publisher: Cleis Press (2 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1573443301
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573443302
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 125,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"When writers try to make art that is universal and not personal they always fail - it's being personal which makes it universal in the end. Clayton Littlewoods book is tender, warm and full of humanity. Soho is like an upturned dustbin and he like a drunk rummaging through it. He shows us all that glitters is not gold. And all that smells is not garbage. Living in Soho is like coming all the time. Reading his book is too." --Sebastian Horsley, author of Dandy in the Underworld

'Funny, percetive, sexy, exquisitely observed.' (Stephen Fry)
--Stephen Fry

'His novel truly shines.' Gay Times Book of the Year 2009
--Gay Times


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"Like the queer descendant of Samuel Pepys, Clayton Littlewood captures the day-to-day drama of his London in all of its demented glory."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just so real!, 23 Oct 2008
By A. M. Pascale - See all my reviews
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Littlewood gives a great insight into to the real world of life in Soho , the drugs the sex and the prostitutes.Littlewood also chronicles the victims of all this headonism with his touching portrayals of there daily struggle to survive .The fact is that the book is so very real is so refreshing in this fictionalized world we live in.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Soho So Wonderful, 30 Jan 2009
Clayton Littlewoods book started life as a blog on myspace, the cult of blogging having led to several book deals it seems to be an area to watch `Wife in the North' and `Belle Du Jour' to name two. Hmmm why would I have two blogs? The blog started when Clayton and his partner rented shop space on Old Compton Street in London and started their clothes store `Dirty White Boy' he started making notes on the people who came in, the crazy landlady, the brothel upstairs and the sights and sounds of a street that never sleeps. This blog got a huge following leading to a column in the London Paper and now the book.

The comparisons it has had made to it are things such as Armistead Maupin and also Samuel Pepys diary but from the noughties. You can see why the comparisons to Tales of the City, his prose is sumptuous and witty and the characters that he tells you all about are fascinating and quirky, plus Old Compton Street and San Francisco are both gay Mecca's. The comparisons to Pepys are that it's almost a diary (well I suppose blogs are `the new diary' to a degree) charting the life of London and in particular one of the streets at the heart of it.

The street itself is pretty much the star of the show, the lead character if you will, with all the regular shoppers, tramps, prostitutes at becoming great secondary characters, only they aren't characters, they are real.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Wonderful!, 15 Nov 2008
By R. BROWN (UK) - See all my reviews
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The village of Soho London as seen through the eyes of author "Clayton Littlewood". Where the rich and famous brush shoulders with the down and out. Written on a little red chair from the shop window of "Dirty White Boy". Littlewood captures to perfection the many colourful somtimes obscure characters he ventures across. Their stories often funny, often sad. Including a hearbreaking tale of lost love. A truly wonderful book. Dismiss it at your peril.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Soho, full of character, full of characters...
I bought this book kind of by mistake and I am glad I did: I loved it. The shop he ran in Soho with his partner gave Clayton Littlewood the perfect position for people-watching;... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. PARDOE

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant stuff
Clayton Littlewood has an excellent eye. Written with humour and affection, Dirty White Boy puts Soho, London's mecca of eccentricity, under a great big phallic microscope for... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sohooo oh my!
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5.0 out of 5 stars a modern classic
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