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Human Punk

By: John King

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Paperback | 15 June 2001 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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20.0 x 13.3 x 2.2

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A rich and passionate novel about the glory days of punk and reggae in London's satellite towns.

For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet - until he is beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union Canal with his best mate Smiles.

Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is traveling home on the Trans-Siberian express after three years working in a Hong Kong bar, remembering the highs and lows of the intervening years as he comes to terms with catastrophe.

Fast forward to 2000, and Joe is sitting pretty - earning a living as a DJ, selling records and fight tickets. Life is sweet again - until a face from the past forces him to re-live that night in 1977 and deal with the fall-out.

Industry Reviews

"In its ambition and exuberance, Human Punk is a league ahead of much contemporary English fiction" New Statesman "King's eye for detail is as sharp as his characters' tongues, and his creations are eminently three-dimensional: insightful and funny one minute, bigoted and ******-up the next" The Face "Unique and brutal fiction...King is a master of idiom and street slang" The Times "King's most accomplished and compelling story to date" Esquire "Evokes the punk era superbly" Independent on Sunday

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