Paperboy

By: Christopher Fowler

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Hardcover | 12 February 2009

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Superman, Dracula, Treasure Island, The Avengers ... when you're ten years old you can fall in love with any story, so long as it's a good one. But what do you do if you're growing up in a home without books?
Christopher Fowler's childhood memoir captures life in suburban London through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema devouring novels, comics, cereal boxes - anything that might reveal a story. But it is 1960, and after fifteen years of post-war belt-tightening, his family's not quite ready to indulge a child cursed with too much imagination.
Caught between an ever-sensible, exhausted mother and a DIY-obsessed father fighting his own demons, Christopher takes refuge in words. His parents try to understand their son's peculiar obsession but they fast lose patience with him - and each other. As the war of nerves escalates to include every member of the Fowler family, something has to give, but do the tough lessons of real life mean a boy must always let go of his dreams?
Paperboy recalls the day when Vesta Chow Mein was considered the height of sophistication and reading was regarded as something that would just hurt your eyes. It is a memoir of a childhood at once eccentric and endearingly ordinary.

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