Bits of Me are Falling Apart

Dark Thoughts from the Middle Years

By: William Leith

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Paperback | 24 July 2009 | Edition Number 1

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One morning in August 2007, William Leith wakes up and realises that something is wrong. He is not in a bed, but on an old mattress on the floor. He is not in a house. He is in his office. He is alone. He no longer lives with his little boy and the mother of his little boy. Mentally, he is at the end of his tether. Physically, he is fraying at the edges. Bits of him are falling apart.
But then again, so is everything else - the economy, the environment, the very fabric of society.
With his trademark darkly humorous mix of personal story and social commentary, Leith attempts to answer the question: is everything really falling apart? Or is it just him? He examines the ageing process in humans, and in everything else as well, from the universe to the banking system. And he comes to realise that, even if he can't solve the problems of the world, at least he has a thorough understanding of failure.

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'Hilarious and touching and beautifully written ... Philip Larkin meets Jeremy Clarkson, but in a good way. This is a middle-aged The Catcher in the Rye' Jon Ronson 'Resembles an expertly-paced stand-up routine ... positively Izzard-esque' Time Out 'Very funny. He writes in a sort of whimsical stream of consciousness ... even his more random disquisitions contain glorious nuggets' Observer 'Moves at the kind of pace any thriller writer would give his eye teeth to maintain' Daily Telegraph

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