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Music Night at the Apollo: A Memoir of Drifting
Lilian Pizzichini
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Description for Music Night at the Apollo: A Memoir of Drifting
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 168.
What you’ve got to understand is that here in Southall, everyone’s up to something. In 2006, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal. The Adam Bonny, moored between Newlocks and Shackleton Estates, is to be the place she can learn more about her extensive working-class London family – and the place where she will become pulled into a strange underbelly of drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals. Lilian always found it easier to observe than join in. Abandoned by everyone around her, by the time she was ... Read more
What you’ve got to understand is that here in Southall, everyone’s up to something. In 2006, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal. The Adam Bonny, moored between Newlocks and Shackleton Estates, is to be the place she can learn more about her extensive working-class London family – and the place where she will become pulled into a strange underbelly of drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals. Lilian always found it easier to observe than join in. Abandoned by everyone around her, by the time she was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408835371
SKU
V9781408835371
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99-50
About Lilian Pizzichini
Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review, the Times Literary Supplement and as writer-in-residence at a prison. Her first book, Dead Men's Wages, won the 2002 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-fiction. Her second, The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. Lilian Pizzichini lives in London.
Reviews for Music Night at the Apollo: A Memoir of Drifting
Wildly original and imaginative and disturbing, it remains in one's consciousness like a very vivid dream. The evocation of place is brilliant and also of sensation
Francis Wyndham
Praise for Dead Men's Wages: This memoir is as good as a novel
The Times
In telling the story of her criminal grandfather ... Pizzichini paints ... Read more
Francis Wyndham
Praise for Dead Men's Wages: This memoir is as good as a novel
The Times
In telling the story of her criminal grandfather ... Pizzichini paints ... Read more