A ton of malice
McKinley, Barry2017
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Total copies: 1
March, 1979. Sid Vicious is dead, Margaret Thatcher is very much alive, and Barry has just arrived in London. Twenty years old, Irish and angry, he cons his way into a job at Sellafield, home of Britain's military-grade plutonium. It's the start of a hilarious and hallucinatory coming-of-age tale that ranges from sordid coal-bunker squats to the tea room at the Ritz, via the Parisian Left Bank and the blooming poppy fields of Ireland. Here is a portrait of an artist on acid, amphetamines and PCP, who finds himself working at the heart of Britain's nuclear industry. It pulses with stories and stories within stories, eye-watering, sexy, terrifying and poignant.
Main title:
A ton of malice / Barry McKinley.
Author:
McKinley, Barry, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Old Street Publishing, 2017.
Collation:
256 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781910400531 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GEN
Language:
English
BRN:
312434